How to Use daring in a Sentence

daring

1 of 2 adjective
  • She decided to wear a daring dress to the party.
  • She's a daring innovator in the field of biotechnology.
  • Although daring to bet on the favorite from the tougher side of the draw, City are far and away the best side of the four.
    Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • With such a daring ensemble for the Fresh star, Daisy kept the focus on the dress instead of the rest of the look.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Moran and his eight band mates mix and match genres with skill and daring.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Baring her midriff, the look provides one of the more daring silhouettes of the tour.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • San Diego State does not have Deion-hiring money, but the thought process of a daring jolt needs to be the goal.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The fun in ballet flats in 2023 is that style choices are much more daring.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 12 July 2023
  • Below, take a look at Vogue’s roundup of the most daring looks in London from Vogue World 2023.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The most daring and the dumbest change to the order of things, in 2023, concerned the red carpet, which was no longer red.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That’s the front on which Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s script feels most daring.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • President Biden took a daring top secret trip to Kyiv to mark one year of the war in Ukraine.
    CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Swennen has dressed Stewart in some of her most daring looks to date this year.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Gordon will turn 71 next month, and she’s made one of the most daring albums of her career.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Fintch has no plans to stay in jail, regardless of what the FBI think, and soon hatches a daring plan to break out.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But with a show this daring, a fiery wreck always feels moments away.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Be daring and choose a modern black and white color scheme.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Twilight alum has been taking more daring fashion risks as of late.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The most daring thing is how long the sequence goes—six minutes, nearly five per cent of the movie’s running time.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Both Florence Pugh's and Harry Styles' are trendy, daring, and fun.
    Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What results -- on record and in concert — is an aural treat of rare depth and daring.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Rachel Brosnahan's third Met Gala may be her best—and most daring—look yet.
    Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Keep in mind the daring conical shade directs all light toward the floor.
    Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
  • It’s led to a spate of daring, exciting restaurants that are reshaping this city in the best way.
    Mariette Williams, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But the real star of the show was her vocals, daring and wild in a way that made all the rest of the spectacle seem superfluous.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In May 1862, Smalls planned his daring escape from slavery.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Speaking of that, this era of cancel culture is a pretty daring time to be in a band like Steel Panther.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 28 July 2023
  • With a piece as daring as the woman wearing it, The Kelly Clarkson Show host made sure the red hue continued to be a theme.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The young star who is often styled by Jason Bolden paired the suit with a daring black circular bralette.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Zendaya is known for her daring looks during Fashion Month and press runs.
    Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
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daring

2 of 2 noun
  • He performs the trick with the daring of a stuntman.
  • Skydiving requires both skill and daring.
  • But what saved the boys in the end was planning—and a whole lot of daring.
    J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
  • The year of the tiger is a year of power, passion and daring.
    Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Chili's The chain caused a stir with a daring burger stacked a half a foot high.
    Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 11 June 2018
  • Their spontaneity and sense of daring played a key role in the film.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
  • One admires the daring even if the result feels slight.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 12 Apr. 2018
  • My theme is the daring and renown of the Portuguese, to whom Neptune and Mars alike give homage.
    Robert Goodwin, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • And their greens can be snipped into all sorts of daring ’dos.
    Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The company known for daring played it safe, and the result doesn't score big with us.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 24 June 2020
  • The more daring may have worked up a Southern-rock standby.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2019
  • In 1962, two men from East Berlin attempted a daring escape to the West.
    Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
  • The daring and spectacular 3-wood from the fairway at the par-5 14th that barely cleared a bunker and led to a birdie.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
  • Tony Kanaan makes a daring inside move on the back straightaway to move into 9th.
    Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2018
  • So Woody stages a daring rescue, and helps his newfound friend get to the safety of the toybox on the day of Andy’s big move to a new house.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
  • No daring, no go-for-it, no holes like 13 and 15 at Augusta.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
  • The daring and spectacular three-wood from the fairway at the par-five 14th that barely cleared a bunker and led to a birdie.
    Tod Leonard, latimes.com, 16 June 2019
  • His body was writ over with his daring and folly, a testament to the fragility and strength of flesh and bone.
    Alice Driver, Longreads, 20 Mar. 2018
  • But Børns’s get-up was a new kind of daring—not only due to the amount of leg exposed, but in its color choice, too.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Sure, the daring will hold out to see what happens with the first Apple Silicon Macs.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2020
  • On his own albums and tours, the award-winning Noy mixes jazz, rock, funk, blues and more with equal taste and daring.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Check out the daring profile in its entirety over at The New Yorker.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The first one … is a fierce competitor, daring and tenacious.
    Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 June 2020
  • This is a week for looking at your own face in the mirror and daring to see yourself clearly.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Of the two, Josh Safdie tends to be the instigator, driven by instinct and daring.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But Lindsay made a daring behind-the-back pass to White, who scored with 6 seconds left to force overtime.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Word of Smalls’ daring escape quickly spread throughout the North.
    Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And yet, 75 years after V-J Day, there are still stories of wartime courage and daring that haven’t been publicly told.
    oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Last year, the park observed the centennial of the Iron Scow’s stranding and the daring rescue that ensued.
    Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • On the first drive after halftime, Mahomes returned to the big-game daring that is his calling card.
    Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023

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