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.

  • Deftly and flawlessly unraveling the (deliberately convoluted) intricacies of the Microsoft situation may be too much for the valiant Slate crew, already caught in the middle (twixt truth and fealty) as they are.

  • 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.

  • (The Misty Isles, the mythical homeland of Queen Aleta in Prince Valiant , once made a practice of slaughtering shipwreck survivors the moment they washed up on beaches.

  • 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).


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