muster courage

Example Sentences

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There are multiple ways this crisis can be addressed if elected officials muster courage to restore safety and civility.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2019

Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill.

From Time Magazine Archive

She may have felt a touch of guilt because she could not muster courage to tell her father that she had already visited Mr. Coleman.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Fyles, Franklin

It were, perhaps, better for Lincoln if he could muster courage and act by himself according to his nature, rather than follow so many, or even any single adviser.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

There the cold was so intense that he waited some time before he could muster courage to cut the cover away.

From A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Carlson, George