This daunting figure advanced boldly into the plain, between the two armies drawn up in battle array, and in a great voice cried out: "Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?
It had already taken half of this daunting term to complete the object of the expedition.
The president faces the daunting task of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy.
None of them wished to linger in the North--Harding least of all--but it was daunting to contemplate the distance that lay between them and the settlements.
There was, so far as he could see, no change in Blake, and he was stirred by a deep pity and a daunting sense of loneliness.
A biting wind wailed among them, causing the needles to rustle harshly; but except for this there was a daunting silence.
There was something insidious and daunting about the African coast.
He could not hear his engines; one heard nothing but the daunting uproar.
The handful of men had undertaken a big thing; there was much against them, and daunting risks must be run.
There was a confusing flash of steel and a daunting uproar.
She felt the daunting loneliness, the quiet jarred her nerve.
The factory was rather a daunting spot; reeking with foul smells and haunted by a sense of gloom.
The president faces thedaunting task of reforming a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy.
The gully itself, though daunting at first sight, gave, in fact, a short cut down to the meadows above Cleeve Court, easy and moderately safe.
Some he thought were made by cracking boards and falling damp; others puzzled him and he found them daunting in the dark.
In fact, a daunting quietness brooded over the spot.
The stagnant air was hard to breathe, there was something daunting in the silence, and the splash of paddles sounded harshly loud.
It was a daunting country and the gloom of its steamy forests was the shadow of death.
It was plain that she was running before the wind, but Jake felt that he must pull himself together when he looked aft, for there is something strangely daunting in a big following sea.
The Future hides in it Good hap and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us,--onward.
The Future hides in it Gladness and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us,--onward.
Daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era - especially poverty, lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups, and a shortage of public transportation.
The government continues to face the daunting task of reforming a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy.
There was a pantherlike quickness in the pounce that was somehow daunting from an individual of this man's size and impassivity.
For a whole minute the daunting uproar continued, neither approaching nor receding, and at length the man's curiosity, ever insatiable where the mysteries of the wild were concerned, got the better of his prudence.
This combined suggestion of the rabbit and the tiger was peculiarly daunting in its effect.
He disappeared, came to the surface gasping, struck out hardily through the grim and daunting turmoil, and succeeded in gaining one of those islets of toughly interlaced débris which turned slowly in the flood.
The bull, astonished and outraged, stood his ground boldly, and at the first charge got in a daunting blow between the enemy's antlers.
His voice, too, though unmistakably caressing and persuasive, was too daunting in its strangeness.
A wave of homesickness swept over her, daunting her for a little while.
Ruth's revelations, far from daunting her, far from making her feel like cringing before the world in gratitude for its tolerance of her bar sinister, seemed a fascinatingly tragic confirmation of her romantic longings and beliefs.
The long-term development of the economy after decades of war remains a daunting challenge.
Daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially the problems of poverty and economic empowerment among the blacks.
It was a mysterious and daunting sound, as if some strong creatures were fighting, voicelessly, to the death.
But what he knew so well was the Boy in motion, and there was always, to him, something mysterious and daunting in this utterly moveless figure, of the stillness of stone.
Springing lightly into the air, he evaded the animal's rush, sailed clean over his head, and in passing delivered another of those daunting spur strokes.
Like Goodwin, he was young and brown; but unlike Goodwin there was a touch of sophistication, of daunting experience, in the seriousness of his face.
He paused under the daunting compulsion of Mr. Fant's eye.
However, growth has not been strong enough to cut into the 30% unemployment, and dauntingeconomic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially the problems of poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups.
The new president faces the dauntingtask of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy.
He turned quickly and made off into the woods, followed by a loud, daunting laugh which spurred his pace to a panicky gallop.
She even thought that she could hear his steps upon thedaunting stillness.
It was heroic, of a magnificence of valour seldom equalled on any field, the work of these two, chopping coolly out there in the daunting tumult, under that colossal front of death.
Yet if some saw it purely as a scientific problem to be solved, more practical people, especially in America and England, were determined to purge the ocean of this daunting monster, to insure the safety of transoceanic travel.
This encounter reminded me that other, more daunting animals must be lurking in these dark reaches, and my diving suit might not be adequate protection against their attacks.
As for those daunting strokes of the tail hitting our sides, the ship never felt them.
If the Nautilus was submerged during these losses of balance, we heard the resulting noises spread under the waters with frightful intensity, and the collapse of these masses created daunting eddies down to the ocean's lower strata.
It changed its setting and decor for the mere pleasure of our eyes, and we were called upon not simply to contemplate the works of our Creator in the midst of the liquid element, but also to probe the ocean's most daunting mysteries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daunting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
