How to Use dashing in a Sentence
dashing
adjective- She married a dashing young lawyer from the city.
- The actor cuts a dashing figure as a young Jack Kennedy.
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Heathcliff was not a dashing hero.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, Jack looked dashing in a navy-blue suit and white button-down shirt.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 June 2026
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My dashing policeman needed to be in peak form.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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Jones took a couple of steps toward the dashing Lawrence and then stood by and watched him score.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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Cold Iron Pictures Please, try to name a more dashing corpse.
—Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 1 June 2018
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While this is happening, a dashing man rides into town on a horse while swigging from a flask.
—Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 28 Dec. 2020
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Murtagh is a dashing young man played by Rory Alexander.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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What’s more dashing than an instant manicure that lasts up to seven days?
—Essence, 1 Sep. 2021
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Idris Elba cuts a dashing figure even in workaday prison stripes.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
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Every actor to play the dashing spy over the years has become defined by the role, for better or worse.
—Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Jan. 2026
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Everything else was red and gold, including some of the guests, who looked rather dashing and festive.
—Wendy Yu, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2019
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Speaking of, is Buckingham not the coolest, most dashing zad-rocker in the biz?
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2021
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The pilot, Jonathon Rae, a young Aussie with a dashing mustache, looked down and grinned.
—Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
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Has Clooney ever seemed that good at sprinting or darting or dashing or scurrying?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
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Meanwhile, Blanco looked dashing in an all-black look consisting of a suit and beaded mock neck top.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
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Overnight, your dashing visage has transformed into something more resembling a yeast roll with eyes.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 25 Feb. 2026
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The decades-old race sends dachshunds dashing — sometimes straight for the finish line, other times in every direction but.
—Meredith Nierman, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
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The dashing staff wear double-breasted jackets over casually chic white tees.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2026
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His lover is the dashing and capable knight Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones).
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
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Sarnoski’s attachment to the myth of Robin Hood — a dashing man of the people who robbed from the rich to give to the poor — has deep roots.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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The archangel Michael, in his dashing garment with rainbow wings, stands astride the narrow earthly realm, where the desperate cry out to be saved.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
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From this point let the sparring between reliable Larry and dashing Luke, the first true love of Joan.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
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But here, in the strongest era of his leading man status, Caine is a dashing, moral, relentless badass who takes out an entire family of rich creeps.
—Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
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Fassbender, meanwhile, cut a dashing figure in a classic black tuxedo with a double-breasted jacket, slim-fitting pants and a black bowtie.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
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But in 1941, the 27-year-old actor was at his most dashing, most adventurous and most in demand.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
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While the Iron Man star and his wife certainly cut a dashing figure in their all-black looks, the actor's bald head is the real statement piece of the night.
—Brittany Talarico, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
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During the Great Depression, Robin was a dashing champion of the people.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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Jonathan Bailey, who plays the dashing Prince Fiyero, was not present for the live taping, as he was wrapped up in production in England.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
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