How to Use fortitude in a Sentence

fortitude

noun

• She has endured disappointments with fortitude and patience.
• The courage and the fortitude to just do it is amazing.
  — ELLE, 1 Apr. 2022
• Brown had the fortitude to erase Cleveland’s hard drive for the first time in decades.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The drive showed grit and fortitude from Ashford and Auburn.
  — al, 27 Nov. 2022
• But there's one test of fortitude and man-muscle that has made it through to the present day.
  — Elizabeth Gunnison Dunn, Esquire, 4 Dec. 2012
• For them to do this took a lot of courage and fortitude, just desire.
  — Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2017
• His fortitude produced the luck that landed him back in the game.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2021
• This defense lacks the depth and front-line fortitude to be great.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• This was not just a matter of courage, pluck, and fortitude.
  — Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
• May God give you strength and fortitude to deal with and face this with solitude.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 1998
• In the Senate, Romney seemed to grow in stature and fortitude.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The hope, of course, is that now that sort of fortitude won’t go on hiatus again for a season and a half.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• At least the folks at Popsugar have the fortitude to admit that the look kind of slaps.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 30 Apr. 2021
• But people just don’t have the fortitude to say it out loud.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2019
• The anxiety and fear, and the rashes and illness, come with love and fortitude.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 17 Feb. 2023
• But how many out there holding on by a thread have his fortitude?
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Oregon State showed its fortitude by clawing back from a 17-point deficit when the game looked out of reach.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021
• The same fortitude that worked for her on the farm becomes her sustenance away from it.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
• And our school children, all of them, should be taught of the fortitude of Opal Lee, a true American icon.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2022
• Schwarzenegger plays an inmate at the most secure prison on the planet with the fortitude to break out.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 30 June 2015
• But this cycle has been a test of his fortitude and patience.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 June 2022
• It’s his fortitude and mental approach and toughness to the game.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
• Does this bunch have the fortitude to see its way through the hardships to come and still play championship baseball?
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2020
• Griffin’s are impressive, but that pales to the fortitude of this young man.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Or, in the case of an earthquake, the fortitude to sit without utilities and water for a few days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• But Bernard kept it close, and Campbell gave them the lead, and Riley closed it out in a remarkable show of fortitude.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Long, long ago—five years, to be precise—Jeff Owens accepted that his calls to the vet would tax his fortitude.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2022
• The scary part for the rest of the league is that his mental fortitude has only strengthened as his career progressed.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 30 Dec. 2020
• And yet Derrickson was also keen to show that fortitude is hard to snuff out.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2022
• The real test of one's fortitude is what happens after one has failed.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 12 June 2017

Last Updated: 28 Apr 2024