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
  • His fortitude produced the luck that landed him back in the game.
    Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2021
  • For them to do this took a lot of courage and fortitude, just desire.
    Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2017
  • This defense lacks the depth and front-line fortitude to be great.
    Andy Benoit, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But people just don’t have the fortitude to say it out loud.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • This was not just a matter of courage, pluck, and fortitude.
    Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
  • Brown had the fortitude to erase Cleveland’s hard drive for the first time in decades.
    Conor Orr, SI.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But how many out there holding on by a thread have his fortitude?
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  • May God give you strength and fortitude to deal with and face this with solitude.
    Washington Post, 29 July 1998
  • The drive showed grit and fortitude from Ashford and Auburn.
    al, 27 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • At least the folks at Popsugar have the fortitude to admit that the look kind of slaps.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But this cycle has been a test of his fortitude and patience.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 June 2022
  • 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
  • The anxiety and fear, and the rashes and illness, come with love and fortitude.
    Chris Vognar, Chron, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Schwarzenegger plays an inmate at the most secure prison on the planet with the fortitude to break out.
    Matt Patches, Esquire, 30 June 2015
  • It’s his fortitude and mental approach and toughness to the game.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2021
  • What gave you that internal fortitude to work so hard for so long?
    Valerie Jarrett, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • What gave you the fortitude to pursue such a difficult path?
    Deborah Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 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
  • So our guys had some discipline and some fortitude to be able to keep going.
    Rachel Roberts, idahostatesman, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Having the courage to fight and the fortitude to win is what has made our party invincible.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 1 July 2021
  • The head louse is not known for its fortitude or athletic prowess.
    oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The real test of one's fortitude is what happens after one has failed.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 12 June 2017
  • Griffin’s are impressive, but that pales to the fortitude of this young man.
    George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Boston got even in the seventh with a similar bit of fortitude.
    New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • There was a lack of intestinal fortitude to address the border.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2017

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