how dare she, you, etc.!

Examples of dared

dared

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And nowhere had anyone dared monumentality on the scale of the great platform and tiled vaults soaring 15 storeys into the air above.
They dared not come out boldly for protective tariffs, or even for any considerable increase in imperial preference.
He formulated the project of composing some; he dared to be a creator.
The party bosses dared not alienate the popular base he had built up.
By 1715, at the latest, regular forces had become sufficiently powerful to disperse in short order anybody who dared confront them in the open.
Then, a few dared to propose a discrete lower bound to the measurement of action, that is, of the product energyxtime.
The people held this idol in such reverence and awe that no one but his keepers dared approach or touch him.
No one usually dared to interrupt him and ask a question.
Ironically, most geographers and planners have themselves accepted this argument; they have never dared to realize the full implications of their own project.
More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced.
We are the heirs, the beneficiaries of a previous humanity which dared on our behalf.
He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself.
The workers threatened to blow up the boiler of one of the mills if the police dared to enter the premises.
Maybe because he was a clever speaker, dared to say what he thought.
The 12 key questions around which the book is structured are called 'the questions we dared not ask'.
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