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 won't take a dare from General Smith.

From Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way by Stoddard, William Osborn

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 Hughes, Rupert

"I wouldn't take a dare from you or anybody like you!"

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

"I supposed you imagined me one of those gun-fighters who couldn't take a dare and expected me to ride up to your camp and be arrested."

From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Grey, Zane