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 take a dare," returned her husband, and snatched my other hand.

From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Garrison, Adele

"I never could take a dare," she answered.

From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

"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

They said, and in some sort they believed, that a boy who would take a dare would steal sheep.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean