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Example sentences for "dared"

Lexicographically close words:
darauf; daraus; darbies; dard; dare; daredevil; darem; darena; darent; dares
  1. No wonder he was furious, when he saw the schoolmaster, who had never seen the girl until within a week, touching with his lips those rosy cheeks which he had never dared to approach.

  2. But nobody dared question the justice of it, really.

  3. I used to fill up our numbers with saccharine mush, and I shouldn't have dared print a gloomy story even if it had been good.

  4. Dauphine so well that he dared refuse her nothing; and Maintenon had so violent a hatred against me that she was ready to do me all the mischief in her power.

  5. She had before been much accustomed to the company of men, but afterwards dared see none but the King, whom she never loved, and his Ministers.

  6. She was universally detested there; and whenever she went out in a carriage the populace shouted loud threats against her, so that at last she dared not appear in public.

  7. She dared not tell the Shanghai Cock, who was very tall, that she thought large fowls looked coarse.

  8. Here he strutted and crowed and crowed and strutted, while the fowls in the pasture below looked at him and wondered how he dared go so high.

  9. Even then she dared not tell anybody what she thought.

  10. She was a very patient creature, and would never have dared say anything of the sort to the Gobbler when he was free, but now she decided to say what she wished for once.

  11. She did not know that each of them was thinking the same thing and dared not speak of it for the same reason.

  12. Their papers teemed with vindictive articles against the commanding general who had dared to initiate such a novelty.

  13. The ground in front was thickly set with torpedoes, and the troops dared not move.

  14. If he only dared to crush her in his arms and laugh the smiles back into her eyes.

  15. Perhaps from some hidden spring of character within the teacher which antagonized the firm will and strong personality of the student who dared to do his own thinking.

  16. The week passed and the Cabinet of Buchanan had not dared accept the Southern leader's challenge to arrest and trial.

  17. And yet the problem he could not solve was how far he dared as yet to presume on that interest.

  18. If they dared to fire on her--all right--the lines of battle would be drawn.

  19. But she had been prompt in proclaiming her own sovereign rights within her territory when the National Government had dared to call them in question.

  20. General Bragg confronted Rosecrans with an army so strong he dared not attack it and yet not strong enough to drive Rosecrans from Tennessee.

  21. Seward is now imprisoning thousands of Northern men who have dared to sympathize with us--" "An act of infamous tyranny!

  22. They were the acts of a dictator, for Congress was not in session, but he dared to act.

  23. If citizens refused to take an oath of allegiance which he prescribed they were to be driven from their homes and if they dared to return, were to be arrested and treated as spies.

  24. Only a leader of the highest genius could have dared to make such a decision in such a crisis.

  25. The pioneer soldiers of the rank and file in these turbulent days had minds of their own which they sometimes dared to use.

  26. A dainty little woman of eight, delicately trained in the ways of polite society, was shocked at the familiarity of a soldier who had dared to caress her.

  27. But, particularly and specifically, he damned the young ass who dared to flaunt his feelings and opinions after smiling in his face at his house, for days and weeks and months.

  28. He had not dared to ask Jennie to accept his escort on such a day and yet they drifted to each other's side by some strange power of attraction.

  29. You have murdered Southern men who have dared demand their rights on Northern soil.

  30. I wouldn't have dared such a thing myself, but I'm sure that boy needed a square meal more than anything.

  31. Had she been positive it was dyspepsia, she would never have dared interfere with a doctor's orders; but she felt that the boy needed food and would die unless he had it.

  32. It will be tremendous for both of us so young in life, and I never dared hope for such a thing.

  33. But surely you are not afraid to listen to her, Uncle Peter," I dared to say, and then stood away.

  34. I wish I had dared tell him for the second time that day what I did think on the subject but I denied myself such frankness.

  35. Proceeding to enlarge upon the subject at length, he concluded by saying that, though he dared not declare what he knew without special warranty from the King, he and others were aware of treason cloaked in heresy.

  36. The Council dared not proceed to extremities against the Emperor’s cousin, and tacitly agreed to let her alone, having supplied her with one more bitter memory to add to the account which was to be lamentably settled in the near future.

  37. The Admiral, who had dared to measure his strength against his brother’s, would trouble him no more, unless as an unquiet ghost, an unwelcome visitant confronting him in unexpected places.

  38. Geoffrey was, however, in his own eccentric fashion, a just man, and he dared not risk bringing disaster upon Millicent.

  39. Anyway, although I think he wanted to, he dared not turn her back.

  40. After all she had dared and suffered, it was Helen who would deliver the warning.

  41. You will remember I'm still Julius Savine--and only a little while ago there was no man in the province who dared to try to fool me.

  42. Though her voice was strained, Helen, who dared not do otherwise, looked him steadily in the eyes.

  43. That is why, and because of your promise, I have dared ask help of--you.

  44. Such were the questions which they put to their officers, but no one dared carry them to the general, who sat in his tent without speaking, from sunrise to sunset, the first day after the girdle disappeared.

  45. And they fought and fought and fought, and not a man dared turn his back.

  46. Sir Samuel remonstrated again; the constables were called up, and they informed the Sheriff that, notwithstanding there were fifty of them in the Hall, yet they dared not seize Watson.

  47. At any rate, he has proved himself to be the man for you; he has done for you what none of the milk-sop, miawling orators at Sir Samuel Romilly's meetings would have dared even to think of.

  48. Such, however, was the prejudice of a certain party in the city against Radicals, and particularly against me, that the worthy Alderman never dared to thank me publicly for what I had done to serve him.

  49. The moving object was directly in line with Washington Washington's tent, and for that reason Miss Briggs would not have dared to fire, even did she find it necessary to do so.

  50. Grace dared not press her investigation further, nor even show herself, the Overland girl shrewdly reasoning that the spot would be watched by those responsible for Hippy's disappearance.

  51. The Germans tried to do that same thing, but they didn't succeed," dared Lieutenant Wingate.

  52. Not one of them had a weapon handy, nor would they have dared use them had weapons been at hand, because there was no telling where Hippy Wingate was at any given second.

  53. He was shivering with fever and dared not present himself before me, so I went to see him.

  54. The invader's reputation for valour had preceded him and was such that no man dared cross swords with him.

  55. I was extremely curious for a long time as to the meaning of these pious erections which I saw at every cross-road, but no one dared nor cared to give me any information.

  56. Until with accent of regret She touched upon the past once more, As if she dared him to forget His dream of yore.

  57. The American visitors were to sail for the mainland the next day, but he had come to know them so well in the brief period of their visit that he felt he dared speak to her that same night.

  58. I should think they would not have dared to confess they were Christians.

  59. Through his unintermitting activity all was soon in blooming condition again, and no enemy dared to show himself any more.

  60. There is a tall man riding at the head of the troop, on whose brow a grave majesty is enthroned, he looks wonderingly at the boy who has dared to put himself in his way.

  61. He dared not flash his light around to see.

  62. He no longer dared trust himself to remain where he was, lest he betray himself.

  63. But the scouts had never dared to ascend beyond the protecting foliage of the other trees, lest they be detected.

  64. He had not dared to expect anything but defeat, yet defeat crushed him.

  65. She dared to name the figure, for Whitaker told her that the only son of an intestate takes two-thirds of the estate; the book had also put her on the track of the registration of joint-stock companies.

  66. A hundred words were on his lips but he dared not breathe them for fear of breaking the spell.

  67. She had not dared to call the ayah or the butler and, as she could not rouse or lift him, she had left him lying there under some rugs and mosquito netting.

  68. After paying off the mortgage of eight and sixpence for her room and breakfast, she had to set aside three shillings for fares, for she dared not wade overmuch in the December mud.

  69. This pedagogue who had stepped from scholardom to teacherdom dared to blame or eulogise the steps she took to earn her living, to be free to live or die as she chose.

  70. I have been a thousand times censured for it, but I had that confidence in truth that I dared put my faith in it and in you.

  71. The modern war on evil and pain displays weapons of an edge and force of which our forefathers never dared to dream; its armies march forward not in ignorant hope, but with the assured expectation of victory.

  72. Few men would have dared in competition to remove that imposing architectural feature, the reading room, from their main facade and put it frankly where it belongs, in direct touch with the stacks which serve it, as Carrere & Hastings did.

  73. A signal miracle wrought before the crowd in the Temple would have rallied the people to the side of our Lord in such numbers and with such vehement support, that none of His foes would have dared to lift a hand.

  74. Was it possible that Cæsar dared to chaff a man who was supposed to have the peace of Europe in his keeping?

  75. He had obtained, nay, invited, Warde's confidence; and he dared not abuse it.

  76. One afternoon he dared to play in a match against the Nondescripts.

  77. Well, Uncle John had taken his "header" with a stout heart--who dared to doubt that?

  78. And you--you have dared to play with such an edged tool as forgery.

  79. Had he dared to do so, the Caterpillar would have made things very sultry for him.

  80. He went to church as a matter of form; but he dared not approach the altar in his present rebellious mood.

  81. Yet Sion hath dared to say: The Lord hath forsaken and hath forgotten me.

  82. Then I knew that he dared not be alone, and that I had him, whatever happened.

  83. It wasn't for him to guess that you dared not go back.


  84. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.