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Example sentences for: dare
How can you use “dare” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
We did not dare go near them.
I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me, Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
[M]alice and partiality set apart, let any man who understands English, read diligently the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher, and I dare undertake that he will find in every page either some solecism of speech, or some notorious flaw in sense; and yet these men are reverenced, when we are not forgiven.
A large number of the etymologies in the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) fall into this latter category.
Yoruba ofe meaning `a charm enabling one to jump very high or disappear' and `to disappear' was proposed by Frederic Cassidy, Editor of DARE , but the semantics are very problematic.