How to Use valor in a Sentence

valor

noun
  • The soldiers received the nation's highest award for valor.
  • Just felt like something that has a lot of valor to it.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 May 2026
  • Eternal valor is on the line, along with cash prizes and a sequined belt.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • In the end, there was no valor or righteousness, just tragedy.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2020
  • He was given a medal for valor by one of the world’s great generals.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Putting your life on the line for others is the ultimate valor.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the recognition for his valor arrived late in his life.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • On the base are the words valor, endurance, courage and devotion.
    — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Teaching us the valor to start a new way of being and behaving.
    — Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Mar. 2025
  • For his calm and valor under fire he was awarded the Bronze Star.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Which for us was not correct, that was not the appropriate award for their kind of valor.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Even as the crowd cheered the handlers for their valor, the specter of dangerous mishaps dogged the parade.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
  • And at some point, discretion becomes the better part of valor, right?
    — Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com, 20 May 2018
  • The valor is not in remaining at risk for catching a bullet but in making the choice to avoid it.
    — Sari Botton, Longreads, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This could be the gift that Ukraine deserves, the gift that their valor and sacrifice has more than earned.
    — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
  • As for the colors, the red stripes are for valor and the white stripes are for purity and innocence.
    — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2024
  • Their common threads are the valor, skill and luck that kept most of them alive and earned them their country’s highest honor.
    — Jonathan W. Jordan, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Stephan, a police sergeant who was honored for his valor and who transitioned while on the job, was framed against his squad car.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Discretion, indeed, is the better part of valor.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • James Essig of the 19th Precinct, among the first on the scene, was awarded a medal for valor.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest award for valor in combat.
    — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2019
  • And yet, three paragraphs in, the report also mentioned valor, hailing the crew’s courage and will to survive.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Because of his valor, 400 British troops lived to fight another day.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2017
  • That valor gave us the freest, greatest and most noble Republic ever to exist on the face of the earth.
    — Meredith Kile, People.com, 26 May 2025
  • The French awarded all 171 soldiers the Croix de Guerre for valor.
    — Radhika Chalasani, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The Medal of Honor is our nation’s highest award for valor on the battlefield.
    — Stephen Humphries, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Karin Rosenberg, who first met her husband in the 1980s, knew nothing of his valor for years.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • But the deeds of one warrior that night will live forever in the eternal chronicles of military valor.
    — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In those conflicts, as in earlier wars, women served under fire and were recognized for acts of combat valor.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2026

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