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Example sentences for: valiant
How can you use “valiant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Every impeachment junkie has by now heard the tale of the valiant Edmund Ross, the Republican senator who in 1868 broke party ranks to acquit the impeached President Andrew Johnson.
Let me rephrase my opening sentence: The visionary Richard Belluzzo resigned as chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics, after dedicating 19 valiant months to turning around that company."
In a world with too much good stuff to read, "Today's Papers" suggests the following rule of thumb: Always skip a story that starts off with a woman's valiant struggle to keep off her cellular phone for a few days for the sake of her family.
Thus I met any number of expressions which I could work out, given their contexts, and which have in common both a valiant attempt to use English and an unfamiliarity with idiom.
We are, of course, in the magical domain of Franglais, where it is virtually impossible to tell whether the given definitions accurately represent the way English words and phrases are employed by the French or merely reflect one person's valiant but ill-founded guesswork: in other words, whether such massive incomprehension is individual or collective.
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