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
"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
The sufferings a reporter was willing to go through to get a story or take a dare!
From Garth and the Visitor by Wesley, Joseph
"Now you have gone an' done it, for I never take a dare, never," he laughed.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Mulford, Clarence E.
"I won't take a dare from anybody," Hervey shouted.
From Tom Slade's Double Dare by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
