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How to use bravery in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Bravery means being brave, courageousness. Example: “The officer received a commendation for bravery.”

Examples of bravery by meaning

nounBeing brave, courageousness.

  • To move towards danger when others are fleeing is the definition of bravery in my book.2025 November 12, Philip Haigh, “High praise for rail staff's courage and clear thinking”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 50

More sentences with bravery

  • The officer received a commendation for bravery.From the entry commendation
  • The soldier was distinguished with a medal for his bravery.From the entry distinguish
  • He compliments their bravery in stabbing a pregnant woman and her fetus to death.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
  • "Hey," he said, mustering the bravery to provide some comforting hoverhand just above her shoulder.2017, Scott Kenemore, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World: A Novel Take on a Brain-Dead Election, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry hover hand
  • “Think of apologizing as an act of menschiness and bravery, because it is,” Ms.2015 June 27, Laura Zigman, “I Can’t Apologize (Sorry!)”, in New York Times. From the entry menschiness
  • It’s the antithesis of bravery because they rarely identify themselves or give away personal information.2012, David Brown (18 March 2012), Richard Bacon on the online abuse he’s suffered for two years, Radio Times (retrieved 2017-11-09…. From the entry edgy
  • These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297. From the entry livestock
  • That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.1998, Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Jonathan Powell), The Republic and The Laws, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry greatheartedness
  • The modern Chanakya deserves kudos for explicit bravery."2015, Ajit Sherawat, “The Siblings Settle Down”, in Born in the Second Wind, New Delhi: Srishti Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry Chanakya
  • Other traits were mental: intelligence, creativity, bravery, musical ability, idiocy.2000 August 27, Joe Cain, “The Prince of Peas”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry mendelian
  • From all accounts it was one of the fiercest fights of the campaign, conducted with great determination and conspicuous bravery.1915, Philip J. Sampson, Capture of De Wet: The South African Rebellion, 1914, E. Arnold, page 188. From the entry dumdum
  • You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management.2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport. From the entry zero
  • But because of your bravery at Cummaná and your good management at Cartagena I convert your courtesy admiralcy to a permanent appointment as Admiral.1989, James Albert Michener, Caribbean, Random House, Page 101. From the entry admiralcy
  • And if this is so, did my neatly haircutted self have in common with today’s shaggy hairs, not individual bravery, but herd conformity?1972, Nathan Perlmutter, A Bias of Reflections: Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew, New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry haircutted
  • The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.2008 February 20, Maxie Zeus, “Glass Fleet”, in www.tunezone.net, retrieved 07 Oct 2011. From the entry platitudinize

Meaning of bravery

  1. noun Being brave, courageousness.
  2. noun A brave act.
  3. noun Splendor, magnificence.

Full definition of bravery

Questions about bravery in a sentence

How do you use bravery in a sentence?
Bravery is used as a noun. For example: “The officer received a commendation for bravery.”
What is a short sentence with bravery?
“The officer received a commendation for bravery.”
What does bravery mean?
Bravery means being brave, courageousness.

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