death-defying
Example Sentences
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It’s a trust-fall exercise ramped up to a death-defying degree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
England do not need a humble Stokes in Australia, they need the alpha at his death-defying best.
From BBC • May 23, 2025
How can we balance a desire to see movies judiciously with that little voice in our head that repeats, “Watch Tom Cruise do death-defying stunts” on a loop for six straight weeks every other summer?
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2025
Someone else compared the mere act of boarding a commercial flight to the harebrained, death-defying stunts featured on “Jackass.”
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
The last six steps I took in one death-defying bound.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
