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 never could take a dare," she answered.
From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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
"I don't care anything about that, anyway," said Hervey; "but I wouldn't take a dare from anybody; I never did yet."
From Tom Slade's Double Dare by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it, and Arty did because he wouldn't take a dare.
From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
