How to Use courage in a Sentence

courage

noun
  • It takes courage to stand up for your rights.
  • She has the courage to support unpopular causes.
  • But as long as your courage holds out you may as well go right ahead making a fool of yourself. All brave men are fools.
    Robert Frost, 17 Apr. 1915
  • With the courage to campaign and to win from the center.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 8 July 2022
  • This is a story about the courage to walk away from a dream.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
  • The third thing is courage and the boldness to go after it.
    Essence Wiley, Essence, 10 July 2023
  • The best kind of solo shows are painful to watch and are acts of courage.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Watch this little cutie find the courage to make friends for the first time.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In the end, the movie doesn’t have the courage of its convictions.
    New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The abundance of courage came from an abundance of faith.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 6 June 2019
  • And that kind of courage is a reflection of growth and change.
    Essence, 23 Dec. 2021
  • And have the courage of our own convictions to speak up.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 June 2020
  • Corinne gains the words and courage to stand up to her own racist bully.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • And yet, as a whole, the film lacks the courage of its own despair.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Study hard and take care of your siblings, and have courage.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Thankfully, the star worked up the courage to try again.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Talk of their courage and their madness is a near constant for the day.
    Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
  • Going across the street to get lunch required courage and speed.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Thank you so very much for summoning the courage to share it.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2020
  • That’s something that would take no small amount of courage.
    New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Now go find yours, and have the courage and confidence to lead with it.
    Robert Granader, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • Months passed before Davis worked up the courage to hunt.
    Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, both of them could use the courage to sharpen ...
    Nr Editors, National Review, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This is enough to give Jamie the courage to spit out her big secret.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 May 2020
  • That takes more courage than lobbing insults from the safe seats.
    Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • Such frankness, of course, was its own kind of courage.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
  • To say ‘enough is enough’ is the ultimate act of courage.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Auburn has been in our hearts ever since, and my goodness the courage.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • And that took a tremendous amount of insight, courage, and grace.
    USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2021

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