Example sentences for: intrepid

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

  • Television news conventions are already silly enough--the intrepid correspondent shouting into the camera from underneath swaying trees during a hurricane, the sober reporter standing in front of a coastline after a plane crashes at sea, and so on.

  • The traditional investigative story, at least in the movies, works this way: The intrepid reporter, through gumption and legwork, exposes the evildoer; then the government takes over to flesh out the case and administer punishment.

  • Driving east from Vancouver on the Trans-Canada Highway and following the Fraser River north to its tributary, the Thompson, you are backtracking along the great exploration route traced by intrepid fur traders from the prairies to the Pacific.

  • The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built to house precious Buddhist texts brought back from India by Xi’an’s most celebrated pilgrim, an intrepid scholar named Xuanzang.

  • And then there's intrepid WP reporter Libby Ingrid Copeland's tireless 575-word effort to discover things that have the same circumference as Mark McGwire's arms.


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