Example Sentences

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Now protesters are braving arrest or bullets as they demand not just changes in policy, but the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

Young music lovers are braving the unpredictable weather to watch headline sets from the likes of Fred Again, Lana Del Rey and Catfish and the Bottlemen.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024

"I wanted to tell stories about queer joy, about bravery, about those of us who are braving... prejudice and ill-treatment to still be able to show up as ourselves," they said from their Johannesburg apartment.

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2023

Others are braving offices for the first time, having joined the workforce in the remote-everything era.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

The very effrontery with which you fancy you are braving public opinion is only Dutch courage.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James