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Six example sentences with sangfroid, each labelled with its topic.
When the engine coughed somewhere over the Andes, the pilot's sangfroid kept forty passengers calm until the runway appeared.
Travel
Down two with a second left, she took the inbound pass and shot with a sangfroid nobody expected from a freshman.
Basketball
Shackleton's sangfroid on the ice is why the story survives: he lost the ship and not one of his men.
History
With the tournament riding on one final round, she showed a sangfroid that let her wait out the timer and make the winning move.
Gaming
The paramedic's sangfroid at the roadside steadied the frightened family, her instructions as calm as a shopping list.
Medicine
When the rope jammed halfway up the cliff, the climber's sangfroid impressed everyone; he simply clipped in and untangled it.
Fitness
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