take a dare

Example Sentences

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A newlywed pair in 1959 Florida did take a dare from a radio station and spent their two-week honeymoon underground, where the radio station and her parents called them up too many times a day.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

Then Jim Leonard mocked him and dared him to tell, and asked him if he would take a dare.

From The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by Howells, William Dean

Harry declared he would not take a dare, and he got up.

From Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best by Standish, Burt L.

"I supposed you imagined me one of those gun-fighters who couldn't take a dare and expected me to ride up to your camp and be arrested."

From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Grey, Zane

I won't take a dare from General Smith.

From Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way by Stoddard, William Osborn