Examples of death-defying in a Sentence
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Among Fall Guy’s death-defying feats is a climactic drop from a helicopter performed by one of Gosling’s doubles, Troy Brown, who broke his own record for longest high fall at 150 feet.
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Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
Perhaps in a wink to that film, The Fall Guy features a scene involving a helicopter in which our two protagonists have a conversation about their feelings for one another in the midst of a death-defying chase.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
Tom goes missing and Colt must find him, while performing death-defying stunts along the way.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
Still, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to queue up this summer to launch more than 400 feet in the air at 100-plus-mph, free-fall backward, shoot up again — and plunge, spiral-twisting headfirst back down to earth, feeling the wind in their face and a death-defying rush.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
The Marshall amps became glowing LED screens, upstaged only by the death-defying rigs that move lightning-fast above the band’s heads.
—Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
Maggie features admirable work from its two leads and Joely Richardson but has struggled for recognition in a genre preoccupied with headshots and sequences of death-defying thrills.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2024
Cirque’s death-defying maneuver For Cirque du Soleil, the fall from grace was especially painful.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
Satellites have recorded the death-defying jumps since 2009, but what happens next has remained a mystery until now.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
Perhaps in a wink to that film, The Fall Guy features a scene involving a helicopter in which our two protagonists have a conversation about their feelings for one another in the midst of a death-defying chase.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
Tom goes missing and Colt must find him, while performing death-defying stunts along the way.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
Still, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to queue up this summer to launch more than 400 feet in the air at 100-plus-mph, free-fall backward, shoot up again — and plunge, spiral-twisting headfirst back down to earth, feeling the wind in their face and a death-defying rush.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
The Marshall amps became glowing LED screens, upstaged only by the death-defying rigs that move lightning-fast above the band’s heads.
—Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
Maggie features admirable work from its two leads and Joely Richardson but has struggled for recognition in a genre preoccupied with headshots and sequences of death-defying thrills.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2024
Cirque’s death-defying maneuver For Cirque du Soleil, the fall from grace was especially painful.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
Satellites have recorded the death-defying jumps since 2009, but what happens next has remained a mystery until now.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Death-defying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death-defying. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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