How to Use courageous in a Sentence

courageous

adjective

• She was a courageous woman who wasn't afraid to support unpopular causes.
• There’s a dancing-on-the-edge vibe to it all, a sense of courageous frailty.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• The best leaders are courageous enough to change their minds when the facts change.
  — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
• So here’s a courageous effort to come up with the top 10 teams.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• So, who among us will be courageous enough to try this style for real?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 29 June 2022
• Thanks so much for your time this morning, Mr. White, and your courageous work.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Those with this sign are courageous, strong-willed and carefree.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
• The women of Afghanistan continue to be the most courageous people on earth.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• In the video of the courageous rescue, fire officials are seen plotting their path to the startled deer in the middle of the lake.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• But Eva was the big thing—so courageous and cosmopolitan.
  — Chantel Tattoli, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
• At the outset of her career, Chicago was alert and courageous.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• There are more courageous people and more experts who can do that.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2023
• Smith’s friend, Edmund Burke, was one of the most courageous voices speaking out against it.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• Jeff Blue, a close friend who also played for Butler, recalled Williams as both clever and courageous on the court.
  — Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2022
• The writers were no doubt courageous but missed a bigger problem.
  — Thomas Emanuel Dans, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Today, companies need to be courageous enough to say what worked in the past does not work anymore.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs is courageous and correct.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
• Dempsey hopes that her path teaches her students to be courageous in pursuit of their dreams.
  — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• But then the tide changes, and somebody is courageous enough to come forward, or somebody finds a weakness in the system and is able to break it open.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Among his few, fast friends, there remained a courageous, resilient woman who was his anchor and the love of his life.
  — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
• In fact, the recent tragedies have shown more courageous acts of leadership than failures, says Mr. Wexler.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2022
• Putting your life and personal feelings out there for people to read is scary and very courageous.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
• Her words have long been a catalyst for courageous actions in the face of injustice.
  — Sydney Montgomery, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The candor was a courageous choice in a culture that still stigmatizes substance abuse.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• The show is also courageous, aware of those who came before and, well, both kind and nonjudgmental.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2022
• And how drag, for even nonperforming young and old, can be a courageous act of defending their own sense of self.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• His speech was sincere, and even courageous in the current Republican context, but failed to quite bell the cat.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
• Featured in Friday’s episode, a group of courageous girls are studying in secret in which country?
  — CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Walker Art Center stages a rare survey of the courageous work that bloomed in the Eastern bloc, as artists struggled against state repression.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024