How to Use death-defying in a Sentence

death-defying

adjective
  • Hardy’s death-defying stunts will live in the minds of fans for the rest of their lives.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The death-defying stunt caused a stir in the nation’s largest city.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • There’s a death-defying scene up in the air that was being teased a lot in this press run.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • Cirque du Soleil is taking its death-defying routines to the big and small screen.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • The trailer shows off stunts that seem to top the death-defying moves Cruise has become known for.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
  • This match was all kinds of awesome at its peak, which saw one death-defying dive after another.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Tom goes missing and Colt must find him, while performing death-defying stunts along the way.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Big stunts and death-defying sequences are a staple of Cruise’s movie wheelhouse.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Not every close call involves death-defying drop-offs and enraged bison.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • While many of the workshops take place on the mountain, the overall program isn’t about death-defying descents.
    — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For those who can identify with standing in line just to stop the world and get off, this is the movie for you, a death-defying and dizzying wild ride.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Ding, dong, a numbing offseason is done, from contract disputes to a death-defying shooting to their top draft pick.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Super Bowl shows have also had their fair share of daring, sometimes even death-defying moments.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 4 Feb. 2026
  • While the death-defying moments stay with her, Smith says the solitude and beauty of nature proved even more prevalent.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • No death-defying rapids here on this lazy, looping stretch easily paddled by families in canoes.
    — Stephen Trimble, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The death-defying design of the skates, along with the heavy material of the long brown skirt, would cause most athletes to face-plant within seconds.
    — Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • The students, however, don't just practice death-defying tricks all day; there's also some classroom work at circus school.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The vision of hardy frontier folk stepping up to the mic to regale friends and neighbors with gonzo tales of death-defying rescue by outerwear was too good to pass up.
    — Jay Stowe, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This is where Cruise’s Ethan Hunt’s very particular set of rule-bending, death-defying skills come in.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
  • Are people running out to see Florence Pugh do a death-defying stunt in the newest Marvel movie?
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 3 May 2025
  • Performers, clowns and managers talk about the risks, egos and family atmosphere at Cirque, as shots of death-defying stunts play.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Alex Honnold is our modern-day Evel Knievel, with his death-defying feats bringing him world renown.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 9 June 2026
  • Johnny Knoxville is reconsidering his status as the reigning king of death-defying stunts.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Satellites have recorded the death-defying jumps since 2009, but what happens next has remained a mystery until now.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Cirque’s death-defying maneuver For Cirque du Soleil, the fall from grace was especially painful.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • So the filmmaker ditched the CG action and got the actors to perform their impressive, death-defying feats.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And within that special group of music-loving daredevils, each has their own reason for applying a soundtrack to their death-defying jumps.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The star's powerful belt booms as her Elphaba makes a death-defying leap out a high-tower window, only to soar into the sky on her broomstick.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The care John and Jane have for one another is real, expressed in gestures as small as a bowl of homemade soup or as grand as a death-defying rescue.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024

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