How to Use dauntless in a Sentence

dauntless

adjective
  • But for now, two of this continent’s most dauntless hikers are done.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Now that the reckoning has arrived, which director would be dauntless enough for the task?
    — James Wolcott, HWD, 19 June 2017
  • Now that the reckoning has arrived, which director would be dauntless enough for the task?
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Feb. 2017
  • The dauntless pair always maintained a sense of mischief and humor, at one point frying eggs over the heat of volcanic rocks.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The job falls, nonetheless, to the dauntless Beanie Feldstein.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But the world could explode in a fiery ball of chaos and still our dauntless Housewives would keep boldly moving forward.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Against all these handicaps, Fritz Pollard plays with dauntless spirit.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2022
  • With him is Gwendolen Kelling of York, a dauntless veteran war nurse, now orphaned and alone in the world.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Michelangelo, whose dauntless achievements Steinberg returned to again and again, is the subject of the first two volumes.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Michelangelo, whose dauntless achievements Steinberg returned to again and again, is the subject of the first two volumes.
    — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • In a story within the story, the dauntless Shahrzad visits the angry king and soothes him with tales, winning relief for his people.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The self-belief that drove her to be a champion on ice is no better highlighted than in her dauntless piercing experience.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • His dauntless bonhomie also wins over a crusty war correspondent, Russell Crowe’s Coates.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The dynamic leadership, the inspiring example, and the dauntless courage of Sgt.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The dynamic leadership, the inspiring example, and the dauntless courage of Sgt.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Sierra portrayed Chano as a dedicated and dauntless cop who was emotionally invested in his work.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The vaunted G-men who had rocketed to fame as dauntless crimebusters now looked like the Keystone Cops of counterespionage.
    — Bertrand M. Patenaude, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Thousands of people, many weeping, came to pay their last respects to one of the most colorful and dauntless reporters in the city’s storied journalistic history.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Instead, at ferocious speeds and with dauntless control, there was anger, brutality and violence, on the way to an almost lonely, unwelcome death.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Whether exploring the town and browsing local shops or setting out on a cowboy adventure — a trip to Sheridan feels like a journey back in time to the dauntless days of the Wild West.
    — Molly O’Brien, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
  • What separates Dortch, according to Kingsbury, is the former Wake Forest standout’s dauntless exploits.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In the courtroom on the last day of proceedings, after nearly six years of anguish and effort, Naveen rose to tell the judge of Sheri’s dauntless spirit and ruined future, of her sister’s agony and her family’s desolation.
    — Beryl Lieff Benderly, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2015
  • All the tributaries of the media tracked and facilitated the rise of the agency — dramatizing Hoover’s talking points about the need for the scientific study of crime and celebrating the dauntless exploits of its eternally vigilant leader.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • Played with daunting, dauntless precision by Saoirse Ronan (already, at 23, one of the most formidable actors in movies today), Lady Bird can give herself and everyone around her a hard time.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The perusal of the great Stoic philosopher was one of Professor Merrick’s favourite pursuits, and in this, as in all his other intellectual excursions, the cluster of ladies under his roof followed him with dauntless devotion.
    — Edith Wharton, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In Zelenskyy, Russia has found a dauntless opponent whose refusal to leave the capital has boosted his international image and helped secure billions of dollars of military aid, most of it from the Biden administration.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 15 June 2023
  • Yet stocks are at all-time highs Monday, dauntless even in the face of a major week of catalysts that includes earnings results from five of the Magnificent Seven companies, and a Federal Reserve meeting later this week.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The committee’s report is the fullest record yet of the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election, much of it deriving from the dauntless work of earlier reporters, much of it newly gathered by the committee itself.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Washington Post had tremendous glamour (Ben Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein, Sally Quinn, its dauntless owner Katherine Graham) and clout, and this was a resource the editors and writers in Book World could draw upon for their own purposes.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

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