1
: marked by vigorous action : spirited
a dashing young horse
2
: marked by smartness especially in dress and manners
Examples of dashing in a Sentence
She married a dashing young lawyer from the city.
a brave and dashing soldier
The actor cuts a dashing figure as a young Jack Kennedy.
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However, Kleeman and Callie were keen on Pierce Brosnan, a dashing young Irish actor who had auditioned for the part alongside Dalton during the franchise’s last transition.
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Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Heathcliff was not a dashing hero.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
Brendan Fraser played the dashing hero Rick O’Connell, a treasure hunter and former Captain of the French Foreign Legion.
—Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
That’s not a roundabout way of calling the Murdaughs ugly or implying the series’ costume, makeup, and hair departments haven’t done their best to knock the dashing Jason Clarke down a peg.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
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Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Heathcliff was not a dashing hero.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
Brendan Fraser played the dashing hero Rick O’Connell, a treasure hunter and former Captain of the French Foreign Legion.
—Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
That’s not a roundabout way of calling the Murdaughs ugly or implying the series’ costume, makeup, and hair departments haven’t done their best to knock the dashing Jason Clarke down a peg.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dashing
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“Dashing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashing. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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