adjective
courageous
CEFR B1
possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
In a sentence
Six example sentences with courageous, each labelled with its topic.
The nurse made a courageous call to overrule the schedule and send the child straight into surgery.
Medicine
Voting against her own party on that bill was courageous, and it cost her the committee chair within a week.
Politics
Taking the last shot with three defenders closing is courageous, whatever the box score says the next morning.
Basketball
Aristotle called a person courageous only when fear was present and faced, not when there was nothing to fear.
Philosophy
Shutting down the profitable product to bet everything on the new one was courageous, and the board split over it.
Startups
The film's most courageous character is the quiet clerk who refuses to sign the order, not the hero on the poster.
Movies
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