Example sentences for: valiant

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

  • Doctors are waging a "David versus Goliath" battle against the "abusive and unfair practices of insurance company giants" in a valiant effort "to level the playing field between patients and insurers," said Smoak.

  • I have before me the current issue of The Comics Journal , which features a list of the 100 greatest comics of the century, from Prince Valiant at the bottom to Pogo, Peanuts , and Krazy Kat at the top, with room for everyone from R. Crumb to Captain Marvel in between.

  • ...[H]e was indeed the glass / wherein the noble youth did dress themselves... And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish, / Became the accents of the valiant.

  • In popular culture, literature, and the cinema, soldaderas have been portrayed as self-sacrificing women, usually mestizas (mixed-race women) from the lower classes, but La Adelita is often seen as a güera (light-skinned), “sweetheart of the troops, a woman who is valiant, pretty, and a wonderful helpmate to the soldier” (Salas 121).

  • 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.


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