[ US /ˈvæɫjənt/ ]
[ UK /vˈælɪənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or showing valor
    a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack
    a valiant soldier
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How To Use valiant In A Sentence

  • In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
  • But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
  • Indeed, he made valiant efforts to conceal this information. Christianity Today
  • The valiant one and his noble steed hiked up to the hill where the castle was.
  • To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
  • At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. A Legend of Montrose
  • Chops, our de facto Kiwi skipper and engineer, makes another valiant attempt to get it going with the starter cord.
  • He faced the enemy valiantly , shuned no difficulties and dangers and would not hesitate to lay down his life if need be.
  • It's a valiant attempt that doesn't quite deliver. The Sun
  • Heroes prove valiant in battle but fickle as lovers. Times, Sunday Times
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