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

"I never could take a dare," she answered.

From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Then Jim Leonard mocked him and dared him to tell, and asked him if he would take a dare.

From The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by Howells, William Dean

"I don't care anything about that, anyway," said Hervey; "but I wouldn't take a dare from anybody; I never did yet."

From Tom Slade's Double Dare by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it, and Arty did because he wouldn't take a dare.

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)