Example sentences for: heroism

How can you use “heroism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal tragedies and astounding acts of heroism and bravery.

  • Selected for the Mercury program in 1959, Glenn paraded his Marine-pilot heroism (149 missions in World War II and Korea), his loving marriage, his religious faith.

  • This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.

  • It attacks sentimentality, ideology, and piggish male heroism, preaching ambiguity in their place.

  • 3) We'll miss his heroism.


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