How To Use Daunt In A Sentence
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She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series.
The Sun
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The size of the task ahead is daunting.
The Sun
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Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meantime, the challenges of being Rector of Dundee should not daunt Kelly, with her empathetic skills, campaigning experience and endless enthusiasm.
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That daunting task was made worse by plentiful leanings, curves, twists and turns.
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Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
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John Edwards says he's undaunted by John Kerry's commanding lead.
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But the job can be daunting, unless that's a CEO, (or a mom skilled at color-coded chalkboards).
Your friend is ill, what can you do?
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Daunting as it nonetheless was, I was quite wrong to be so awed.
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His poetry was his attempt to externalise that inner dialogue, but his obscurity of expression, as opposed to his expression of obscurity, provided a most daunting translative challenge.
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There are thousands of unfilled jobs in the hospitality and retail sectors but applying without experience can be daunting.
The Sun
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I had half expected Oscar to be a little daunted by the bearded guy but he knew what he was there for.
The Sun
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So what began as a daunting challenge actually became an advantage.
Smithsonian Mag
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The vote comes as the new National Intelligence estimate shows Iraq is facing what it calls daunting challenges over the next year and a half.
CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2007
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In recent years Pete suffered grievously from stomach cancer, but his courage and commitment remained undaunted.
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Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
A Renegade History of the United States
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And it is the daunting measuring stick to test a rower's physical capabilities.
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Fortunately for me, I had spent years training for nights like this and was undaunted by the fact that the bulk of my meal had not yet been placed before me.
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The answer was returned in a still louder laugh, and in a shot fired at the challenger, the momentary light of the explosion revealing, as Dauntrees imagined, a cloaked figure presenting a harquebuss through the window.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Enthusiasts of the baroque will want to sample but making the purchase for a rather short changed disc that plays for well under an hour would be daunting for some.
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We were enthusiastic about making our practice more evidence based but initially daunted by the potential magnitude of the task.
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Undaunted, he decides to use a fax machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his reward is a daunting trip to Arsenal.
The Sun
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Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.
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It's got one of the most dauntingly bleak and unhappy endings imaginable.
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He felt utterly daunted by the prospect of moving to another country.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Her mum has set some lofty standards and it must be a daunting prospect following in her footsteps.
The Sun
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Her mum has set some lofty standards and it must be a daunting prospect following in her footsteps.
The Sun
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It's surprisingly doable, and going to the gym is less daunting once cardio is out of the way.
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Populated by such enormous talent, the music industry can be a daunting world to enter.
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Handling the sheer volume of such server-generated virus detected messages can be a daunting task.
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Travelling alone around the world is a daunting prospect.
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But she remained undaunted to the end, embarking on a new social life in London with great verve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a consequence of the suggestion Laureen Williamson was approached and readily agreed to undertake the daunting task.
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The challenges of programming across such a vast multicultural area are daunting.
Sociology
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Abseiling is a daunting challenge at any age—but it's especially impressive when Reynolds does it, given he's 105.
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One thing we may at least admire in the man, and that is, his undaunted courage; and I can’t help thinking, as I have said before, that there must be some good in him, seeing the way in which his family are faithful to him.
The Great Hoggarty Diamond
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Current Affairs
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The week before's outdoor session was rained off, but nothing daunted the members adjourned to the clubroom where an impromptu portraiture session was set up, with members being put through their paces by Michael O'Sullivan.
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Add in the demographics, and cracking the home market looks even more daunting.
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For most of us the boundary between childhood and adulthood is more straightforward, and the rites of passage somewhat less daunting.
A Miscellany of Mother's Wisdom
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In fact, the realization that so many differences exist between us is beginning to be daunting.
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The numbers grow more staggering everyday, making the recovery from Hurricane Charley seem even more daunting.
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Undaunted, Matthew mooches thousands of dollars from his parents and self publishes.
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Is he daunted by the prospect of entering the nostalgic hearts of a new generation himself?
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They were men who failed to be daunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Equally daunting is the prospect of moving a six-foot-long arapaima, a fish able to leap as high as three feet out of water.
Moving 38,000 Living Specimens Creates
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This dauntless fighting spirit constitutes the most valuable treasure of all new emerging countries.
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Mr. Sampson is shocked by Mary's reaction, but undaunted.
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The combat life of this famous pilot was not the fanciful image of an undaunted superhero but one of considerable physical and mental exhaustion as well as trauma.
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She emerges from its pages as a dauntless traveller, who took on Russia and won.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The scale of the challenge may seem daunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Kings, with two of the final three games, if it goes seven, on their floor, remain undaunted going into tonight's game.
USATODAY.com - Horry steps it up for Lakers
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Mere thugs did not possess the ability to daunt the comportment of someone with his breeding and class.
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They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting.
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Bidding at auction can be a daunting process as you go up against hundreds of other people for the same lots.
Times, Sunday Times
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So many people find auctions daunting and we were trying to help make that more accessible.
Times, Sunday Times
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She recognized in herself his pride, his dauntlessness, his lofty anger, his secretive withdrawals.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
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Filter views, custom pane set-ups, and options galore help you keep your TweetDeck experience in check - although the reams of options would likely daunt new users just looking for a way to tweet and read updates.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Yesterday, Mr. Diller issued a statement saying IAC wouldn't be "daunted" by "a desperate sideshow designed to exert pressure on the board and management of IAC as they attempt to responsibly act in the best interest of their stockholders.
A Not-So-Loving Triangle
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The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader.
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So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic.
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Both these artists take on the vastness of the world, undaunted, through quiet, insistent craft.
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Extraordinary in its detail—and in its close-up pictures of this nimble army of foragers who have, it appears, settled on Toronto as a favorite destination—the film fascinates with its display of the dauntlessness of the creatures, about which many unhappy householders need no instruction, and their capacity to adapt.
A Musical for Marilyn Monroe
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This comic moment emphasizes Bergot's poverty and makes Lily's retrieval of the money more daunting.
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To daunton me, &c. He hirples twa fauld as he dow,
Song-To Daunton Me
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There are so many new choices in the aisles of health-food stores and even traditional supermarkets that it can be daunting.
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Bilingual / bicultural children face daunting challenges in educational settings that not only disregard their home language and culture, but also the wisdom of previous generations.
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Major Cain, in opening the exercises and introducing the speakers who were to follow, praised in highest terms the undaunted spirit of the North Carolina troops, "who like crusaders have battled in a just cause and returned covered with glory and honor".
Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina. 1917-1919
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This may seem a daunting task because they require so much sustained sunshine, but a combination of polytunnel or greenhouse and careful selection of varieties more suited to our climate makes it possible and rewarding.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
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Danger did not daunt the hero.
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Despite an in auspicious start to the holiday, holidaymakers were undaunted and set out in their thousands to the various resorts.
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Saratoga with his shrill whistle and stentorian voice called his dauntless braves where the fight was thickest!
History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)
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Her dauntless attitude was partly the result of surviving a near fatal ordeal in Bali six months earlier.
Making Wall Street Blush
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Becoming a parent can be a daunting experience, but she and her husband had treble the shock when they learned they were expecting triplets.
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Undaunted, he decides to use a fax machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The campaigners remain undaunted by the warnings, insults and threats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette.
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She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead.
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A: The most challenging was definitely in conquering fear, facing this great daunting task of writing a novel and making it the best it could possibly be.
Diana Evans discusses 26a
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It is a daunting task to replace such a prolific striker, who found the target 28 times last season.
The Sun
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Now, the pianist will either feel daunted or liberated by the fact that Prélude no. 4 bears no time signature: we are simply told largo, espressivo.
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The fete is Oscar-like, with a daunting line of photographers and smartphone-waving bloggers and fans.
Fly Girls: TV series follows flight attendants at home and in the air
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The remarks made by the 63-year-old, who has been Archbishop of Birmingham since 2000, came after he admitted "mixed emotions" about taking up his new role, saying that he was "daunted" by the task that lies ahead of him.
The Guardian World News
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Frequent imprisonment by various regimes did not daunt the courage of Nawal.
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The trip seemed rather daunting for a young girl.
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Liability, contract drafting, and the administrative tangles of setting up a non-profit are just a few of the difficulties that may daunt people who are trying to start a business.
Today's HuffPost Greatest Person: Anneliese Gryta, A Lawyer Helping Low-Income Entrepreneurs Start Businesses
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And so you may be apprised of everything, there will come for you a black horned beast, not overbig, which will go capering about the piazza before you and making a great whistling and bounding, to terrify you; but, when he seeth that you are not to be daunted, he will come up to you quietly.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the
Burlesques
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We can do it knowing that elsewhere in the UK, the challenges look even more daunting.
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Climbers had been daunted by this 1,700-foot volcanic neck for years; at least one had died trying to reach the top.
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Of course, I was slightly daunted.
The Sun
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It was steep but, nothing daunted, he started climbing.
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The degree of collaboration between secondary and higher education, if any reform is to be envisaged, must always be daunting.
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One of athletics' most daunting targets is about to come under attack when a team of elite runners attempts to run the marathon in under two hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before I went, daunted by the vastness of the country, I bought a Brazil Air Pass, which allowed me to visit six cities, from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to Porto Alegre in the far south.
Why I Love That Country
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David's other great hobby is his cellar, and the wine list at the Peat Inn is comprehensive without being in the least daunting.
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Even though the road ahead promises to be difficult, he remains undaunted.
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The intrepid cast are undaunted by the difficulties of the shoot.
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The prospect of meeting the President is quite daunting.
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Sealing the border with Northern Ireland was a daunting task.
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Nothing daunted, Mid soon "wangled" permission to become attached to the
Night Bombing with the Bedouins
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Hall wrote of Wallace's ‘daring, dauntlessness, and imagination.’
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It is a daunting task for any Government to ensure the health of the citizens.
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Like a and steep cliffs fighting the running stream, you should be plunged into the vast unknown fate, then a dauntless spirit to overcome it, no matter how many difficulties to provoke you.
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Roughly 150,000 titles are published each year in the U.S. Without the imprimatur and promotional budget of a major publishing house, the odds of breaking through are dauntingly slim.
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Walking through a crowded school hallway or playground is daunting because it means brushing up against so many bodies.
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Undaunted, I took the Cobra out on the Chesapeake Bay in small-craft warnings, the wind whipping the halyards of docked sailboats into a clanging frenzy.
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A splendid batting pitch and huge outfield meant that the target of 164 was not as daunting as it first appeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps too many feel daunted by the new charging system and forgo the chance to experience the glories of the building.
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Dauntless in spirit, they became steeled through hardship.
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In dauntless courage Collingwood was unquestionably Nelson's equal, but a natural stoicism assisted Collingwood to more balanced judgements.
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A number of conditions put the heart at risk for failing at this daunting task, such as chronic diseased heart valves, or intrinsically weak heart muscle cells (known as dilated cardiomyopathy).
U.S. News
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Yet for a new chairman it was a daunting challenge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking a moment to come to terms with what had just happened, I recomposed myself and returned to my candelight supper, dazed but undaunted.
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I was rather daunted by the thought of addressing such an audience.
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You all have truly made opening my in-box fun, and intellectually challenging - and utterly daunting.
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Standing where these fearless ski racers begin their descent, the view was slightly daunting.
The Sun
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Indeed, the swart broad-beamed woman who stood, arms akimbo, in the doorway would have daunted the most courageous visitor.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Mamoon was surprised and amazed at the boldness, dauntlessness and training of that child and asked, ‘What is your name?’
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Will the Council proceed undaunted from the mild and conciliatory Article XI to the firmer Article XV or the forbidding Article XVI?
The Sino-Japanese Incident in Relation to the Problem of Disarmament and International Security
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Peter says while the thought of group therapy may seem daunting, there are many benefits from working this way.
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He and his fellow buglers have the unfortunate and often daunting task of playing ‘Taps’ at the memorial ceremonies for the division, leaving at a moment's notice at times to play the final respects for fallen comrades and those attending the services.
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That makes it all seem a bit more daunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young sailor is not daunted in what will be his longest single handed spell at sea.
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With what undaunted firmness he suffers himself to be taken to her arms -- no, not to her arms, but her tail -- and how patiently he suffers his cheeks that have felt the breath of sweet lips to be slabbered by a nasty snake!
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)
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Undaunted, Sarkozy has reintroduced the bill, on a fast track, with a provision that creates a five-minute judicial review prior to account termination, fines and imprisonment for those accused of illegal file-sharing.
Boing Boing
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Elaw's Memoirs testify vividly to her dauntless independence, her boldly visionary sense of mission, and her radical spiritual individualism.
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.
Burlesques
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The games seem simple, but the myriad ways of betting and sheer number of games to play can be daunting.
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In addition, it can also lead to daunting calculations as each atom contributes its orbitals to the whole molecule.
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The Chilean experience shows that this obstacle, though daunting, is not insuperable.
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Neverthelesse, as with an invincible true vertuous courage, she had outstood all the other injuries of Fortune; so did she constantly settle her soule, to beare this with an undaunted countenance and behaviour.
The Decameron
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Nothing daunted the ardour of the merchant navy.
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The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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Dauntless found it hard to maintain his belief, or indeed suspend his disbelief, in what he was doing.
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Yet Worth remained undaunted, if for no other reason than that the end of the war remained as fixed in his view as the means of reaching it.
Between War and Peace
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Undaunted, you touch an archstone that transports you to a bridge leading to a lonely castle, watched over by vast, menacing dragons and patrolled by a host of moaning, undead gits.
Pocket-lint
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The Darwin reference is a bit daunting, considering what we do here -- no?
Un-meme
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Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury.
Times, Sunday Times
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Undaunted, he went on to become a virtuoso guitarist and lutenist.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are daunting obstacles but they also represent the kind of clarion call that brings out the best in the American spirit ... creativity and invention.
Anne Thompson: Tuning in to a Cleaner Energy Culture
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I had half expected Oscar to be a little daunted by the bearded guy but he knew what he was there for.
The Sun
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One thing we may at least admire in the man, and that is, his undaunted courage; and I can't help thinking, as I have said before, that there must be some good in him, seeing the way in which his family are faithful to him.
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond
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‘Sustaining 100 per cent growth is new to us, but it is not something that daunts us,’ he said.
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o 'fear made the blood tingle in his back, the women screaming, and the men crying, and the red blood flowing, and my father's sword dauntless in the van -- bring it back, McRae.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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The main reason we have a hard time imagining these scenarios isn't just that the technical problems are daunting.
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Their partnership has been reforged in the heat of the election campaign, but it faces further daunting challenges.
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The sheer labor of such a task is daunting indeed, but once done the message is there to stay.
Christianity Today
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Although you're reputed to be a woman not easily daunted, it might still be comforting to know that you arenot alone.
Elisabeth Rhyne: An Open Letter to Elizabeth Warren
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As a result, both sexes may, at times, feel a little daunted, which is what Rose is questioning.
Elizabeth Buchan - An interview with author
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I found her to be really daunting as well, because of her entitlement and her wealth and her quiet power.
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Haile was undaunted on the podium and in interviews.
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The digital moving image festival presents yet another lineup of next-level music videos, graphics, animation and artwork, augmented by dauntingly up-to-date terminology.
This week's new film events
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The responsibilities of the papacy today are daunting, and all realize that the bishop of Rome needs the prayers of the faithful.
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I am confident that I can finish the half marathons that I've got lined up, but still a bit daunted by doing the full one.
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In the choral movement of his ninth symphony, the soprano soloist has to sing her highest note on the umlauted U in flügel, an even more daunting vowel sound than that in ‘who'd.’
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The dancers are sheer thoroughbreds, dauntless in dressage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many engineers of his age felt similar, a computer could be used to do calculus and arithmetic, but not do then daunting tasks such as communications and process control.
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The challenge of getting on the housing ladder for those on modest wages will remain daunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, intellectually unfashionable but undaunted, the idea of Utopia abandoned the world altogether and was launched into space.
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Indeed, such dialectical transformation demands of us nothing less than a mindful, stoic patience ( "Man muß geduldig alles in sich aufnehmen und wachsen" [ "One must patiently take everything into oneself and let it grow"]), for it entails the daunting challenge of bursting "[d] ie
Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
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Danger did not daunt the hero.
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And replacing financial employment with manufacturing jobs is daunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Undaunted by the cold and the rain, people danced until 2 am.
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He said: "The options for parents in their efforts to choose the right school or college can be bewildering, really daunting."
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I was rather daunted by the thought of addressing such an audience.
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But at home they were daunting, unhelped by reviews implying that we've all memorized Czeslaw Milosz--ah, yes, "Unde Malum"--and that they should squat on the shelves just for "reference.
Lemony Snicket, AKA Daniel Handler, On WHERE To Read Poetry
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I have probably been sounding a bit gloomy about the prevailing moral climate recently but I remain undaunted.
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Sometimes the quantity of statistical information available may seem daunting.
A Short Guide to Writing About History
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Neil was devoted to Claudia, but he found Philip frankly daunting.
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Cut off from the world and supported by a private income, he composed dauntingly huge pieces which were regarded as all but unplayable.
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But Dakota seems undaunted by imminent stardom.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the outside, you suspect that he might have been somewhat daunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Undaunted he would retreat, threading the twine between his fingers and thumb, before blindly pushing forward in a new direction.
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She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series.
The Sun
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But she was not to be daunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five days of close assessment was a very daunting prospect.
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The Massachusetts legislature outlawed racial segregation in 1855, but the battle to desegregate schools remained a daunting one for Blacks in many parts of the country, particularly the South.
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Condensing the novel into a 90 minute script was a daunting task.
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Now, in his first solo venture, he faces a daunting task.
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Despite the daunting competition, since it opened two weeks ago in America it has already taken nearly four times its budget at the box office.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is our duty to remain undaunted by the challenges, both emotional and intellectual, that we face.
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And they embrace the great causes of their age, aiming for the moon no matter how daunting the task looks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once banned, often excoriated, still dauntingly difficult, Ulysses has become the canonical twentieth-century novel.
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His partner in that endeavor was gritty, dauntless, razor-sharp captain Sourav Ganguly , while in Mahendra Singh Dhoni India currently have a skipper who has tactical acumen, icy calmness and, most important of all, the respect of the great players around him.
Can England Rain on India's Parade?
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As she was the kind of ship then called a "dromon" she might be best remembered as "the dauntless dromon.
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
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Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.
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Undaunted, we whistled cheerfully all the time.
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There is no doubt who are the heroes of this narrative: the dauntless developers who battle the cupidity and ignorance of the managers.
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Undergoing major organ transplantation is a daunting prospect for anyone.
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At first the amount of options is a bit daunting - but it is easy to get a good sound out of it - just pick the EQ preshape first and work from there.
Musician's Friend: Stupid Deal of the Day
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She was not at all daunted by the size of the problem.
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The trip seemed rather daunting for a young girl.
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He seems undaunted by the scale of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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A while back I was reminded of Dot the Dauntless, who sustained herself through a long old age perfectly happily and adequately by her changeless routine.
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Undaunted, he next tried to carve a rubber plantation out of the rainforest.
Times, Sunday Times
