How to Use valorous in a Sentence

valorous

adjective

• The actor has more than enough talent to take on the smoldering, valorous Bond.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
• Also valorous, and critical to the battle, were the deeds of Brig.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• By that measure, Vonn’s thirteen seconds at Cortina were the most valorous of her career.
  — Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
• Outside of the White House, some recognized Kitt’s action as valorous.
  — Scott Calonico, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• James Atlas, who died last week, of chronic lung disease, at seventy, was a valorous combatant who knew both glory and defeat.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The 2020 defense policy bill removed a requirement that such awards be given within five years of a valorous act.
  — Josh Boak, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Gladiator was a big, sentimental, sincere movie about the genuine and valorous camaraderie between men who risk their lives for each other.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
• That said, Michelle Yeoh makes her valorous presence felt as Airazor, a glittering peregrine falcon whose devotion to the cause takes a surprise turn.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 June 2023
• It was upgraded to the Medal of Honor decades later following a policy change that lifted a requirement that such awards be made within five years of valorous acts.
  — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Roy Benavidez, a Texas native who was awarded the Medal of Honor for valorous action during combat in Vietnam.
  — Melissa Renteria, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2026
• The cult of the Lost Cause embraced an apocryphal history suffused with nostalgia for a world of valorous Confederates, kindly masters, and contented slaves.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
• Bonhoeffer had written his now famous Letters and Papers from Prison to Eberhard, who in releasing them had introduced his valorous genius friend to the wide world.
  — Eric Metaxas, National Review, 26 Oct. 2020
• The practice of introducing valorous ordinary people was vastly overdone, and the July 4 old-fashioned flag-waving a trifle laborious.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• The Congressional Medal of Honor Society recommendations for the medal must be submitted within three years of the valorous act, and the medal must be presented within five years.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• The season’s first episode and its later depiction of the Fall of Reach — a major moment in the game series — really captured the harrowing yet valorous essence of the Halo games despite not strictly following the game’s canon.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 19 July 2024
• Russian claims to Crimea draw from a deep well of historical mythologies that enshrine the region within narratives of religious identity, valorous militarism, and Soviet nostalgia.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Feb. 2024
• Is there anything more infuriating than the Biden administration’s public rhetoric — or, rather, its lack of meaningful rhetoric — in response to the Chinese people’s valorous protests against the monstrous communist regime that enslaves them?
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Nov. 2022