death-defying

adjective

: very dangerous
death-defying stunts

Examples of death-defying in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After three death-defying adventures defeating world-class villains with his unmatched courage and mad martial arts skills, Po, the Dragon Warrior (Black), is called upon by destiny to … give it a rest already. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024 The star's powerful belt booms as her Elphaba makes a death-defying leap out a high-tower window, only to soar into the sky on her broomstick. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024 The care John and Jane have for one another is real, expressed in gestures as small as a bowl of homemade soup or as grand as a death-defying rescue. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024 In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024 So the filmmaker ditched the CG action and got the actors to perform their impressive, death-defying feats. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024 Monarch butterflies get extra lift from spots on their wings The monarch butterfly’s death-defying migration is in a class of its own. Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 In the photo, Mexican children learn how to fly as part of a death-defying ritual that is performed for all sorts of occasions, including holidays and festivals to honor Catholic saints. Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023 This trend isn’t new, but it’s been supercharged by the pandemic, when the most successful leaders met a need to emotionally connect with employees. —As robust succession plans go, Giorgio Armani’s death-defying grip on his fashion label’s future is an outlier. Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023

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“Death-defying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death-defying. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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