take a dare
Example Sentences
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A newlywed pair in 1959 Florida did take a dare from a radio station and spent their two-week honeymoon underground, where the radio station and her parents called them up too many times a day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
He lost and won large sums at horse-racing, and, indeed, he would not take a dare.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
They said, and in some sort they believed, that a boy who would take a dare would steal sheep.
From A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells
"I won't take a dare from anybody!" said Hervey, excitedly.
From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
The worst of all fools is the one that is afraid to take a dare; and the Twins were—well, let us say they were not yet wide enough awake to know what they were doing.
From The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes
