Sentence example with the word 'mettle'

mettle

activity, brio, disposition, guts, individualism, makeup, perkiness, propensity, stamina, toughness, zest

Definition n. the courage to carry on

Last update: November 29, 2016


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His mettle is extra ordinary.   [noun]

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Of all the young men in the village, Caldor was the only one with enough mettle to face the dragon in its lair.   [noun]

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The first two days of the strike tested the mettle of both sides.   [noun]

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Sae ye'll be sent up for fanever he can find mettle to face ye.'   [noun]

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'In straitened fortunes quit thyself as a man of spirit and of mettle.'   [noun]

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Spirit of my fathers, didst thou leave none of thy mettle and thy honour behind thee; or has all England become craven.   [noun]

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Better trot your nag back and save his mettle to-day, that he may save your life to-morrow.   [noun]

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It was serious--but all was not yet lost; and in this fateful hour Olympius and Memnon proved their mettle.   [noun]

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"Spare not to rub down, my men," said he, "for we have tried the mettle of our horses, and have now but one half-hour's breathing-time."   [noun]

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