dare

Example Sentences

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And much like the works on display, attendees dared to be visually undefinable.

From Los Angeles Times

A well-bred young woman would not dare to take the arm of a young man in public until they were engaged!

From Literature

"They took away valuables -- my radio, my phone, and forty head of livestock" from the village, he said, not daring to name those responsible.

From Barron's

She was, said Moraes, "a black woman who dared to go against the interests of militia members, men, and white people."

From Barron's

I wanted to ask Red more about her granny and the things she had said to me, but I didn’t dare, not with the way she’d reacted when I said her granny was strange.

From Literature