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Example sentences for "dared not"

  • Down in his soul he felt the shame of the knowledge that he dared not.

  • He was experiencing a deal of cold, but he dared not mention it.

  • He, too, held a revolver in his hand, but he dared not raise it.

  • I could not swim and carry my swag, and I dared not leave my swag behind me.

  • I dared not think of getting down at all, unless I committed myself to the rift, of which I was hopeful when I reflected that the rock was soft, and that the water might have worn its channel tolerably evenly through the whole extent.

  • I became self-conscious; I dared not look at Maude, who sat across the table; thereafter I began to feel that the Hutchins connection regarded me as a suitor.

  • The unforeseen accident and Nancy's sudden departure had thrown my life completely out of gear: I could not attend to business, I dared not go away lest the news from Nancy be delayed.

  • Her posture was so graceful, that though he was making straight for the weir, he dared not dip a scull.

  • I dared not come to you, my wife, my beloved!

  • The question of provisions, too, threatened to become a serious one; I dared not leave to procure them myself, nor could I trust any of my men with the mission.

  • Gladly would I have escorted her back to her home--even if I could not make that home again what it had been, or restore her husband to the pinnacle from which I had dashed him--but I dared not do this.

  • The past, at which he dared not look, lay behind him a dreary waste, and the black future stretched out before him, years on years it might be, in which there would be always the same old cankering wound festering in his soul.

  • It was only this cursed undivorced condition of his, and--and the question whether Annette would take him, which he dared not put to the touch until he had a clear and even dazzling future to offer her.

  • And he dared not go in, realising the futility of any attempt at consolation.

  • The emotions in him were so, violent and so mixed that he dared not move--resentment, despair, and yet a strange yearning for the comfort of her hand on his forehead.

  • Swithin: "I saw him slobber on it when he thought I wasn't looking!

  • You've got your pictures, and that's all!

  • New-lighted lamps were gaining mastery, and the faces of the crowd showed pale under that glare, while on high the great white clouds slid swiftly, softly, over the purple sky.

  • Even if I would, I dared not think of a poor man.

  • I came here," he muttered, "because I dared not go to my own rooms.

  • It was towards noon, at last, that a taverner at Castel Guelfo informed me that my party had passed through the town but half an hour ahead of me.

  • It is very easy for you worldly ones who read, to conjecture what had befallen me.

  • Or, yet again, do you suppose her finery was afforded her by Caro?

  • I dared not look at him, but the eye of my fancy saw him standing rigid, pale, and self-contained.

  • I did not doubt it, yet I dared not make so bold as to confess it, and I wondered why they should laugh to hear her earnest censure of them.

  • Having uttered it I dared not look at her.

  • I could not speak to him--I dared not speak to him; I would go and hide myself afresh.

  • I dared not go into the presence of my father.

  • Harmachis I dared not slay, lest his great party should rise in fury and cast me from the throne.

  • I dared not go farther than this reflection.

  • He dared not appear in person on account of my brother.

  • For months together I dared not eat a morsel of food, either in my own house, or in the house of my son-in-law.

  • As for claiming it himself, he dared not.

  • Since then we have made a brave display of cannon ourselves; and if yesterday he dared not fire, think you he will to-day?

  • She was moving towards the window again, and for all that he dared not a second time arrest her by force, he sought by words to do so.

  • I dared not venture to leave my hiding-place--I dared not call!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dared not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    care must; dared not; exogamous sept; hands employed; immense relief; last autumn; little library; long train; miles wide; more slave; place book; practical science; regular distances; roaring fire; save him; shall fatter; should know; thou wouldst; turn the; universally true; well cultivated; your ladyship