sangfroid
Example Sentences
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The pilots, accustomed to the high pressure of front-line combat, reacted with sangfroid.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
It's also the source of Frasier’s winning vulnerability, distilled by Grammer into a cocktail of haughty sangfroid, grumpiness and keen loneliness.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2023
Still, there is a special level of sangfroid required to sit down with famous people in front of a camera and an audience and just … talk.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023
Alcaraz is imbued with boundless enthusiasm and energy, not to mention skill, speed, stamina and sangfroid.
From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2022
Perhaps a few weeks on the Continent, where she could put her sangfroid and multiple languages and wireless operator’s skills to much-needed use in Nazi-occupied France.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
