Used in a Sentence

valiant

How to use valiant in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for valiant.

Editorial note

We could award them a medal for their valiant effort, but you know they are dead. The war in the future isn't won or lost on their actions.

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Quick take

having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of valiant gathered in one view.

adjective

having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for valiant.

adjective

having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"

Example sentences

1

We could award them a medal for their valiant effort, but you know they are dead. The war in the future isn't won or lost on their actions.

2

A valiant attempt. I hope it really does contribute to this and all software patents being struck down for the foolishness that they are.

3

Spotify is a valiant attempt at a new business model. If anyone can make it work, they are the ones and I salute them for trying.

4

What valiant hope. I'm not one of these developers, but I believe the appeal is largely the ability to work with one language in the "full stack": Node.

5

All the while your natural strength and ability bested their most valiant efforts. However, over the course of months and years of training, their form improved.

6

How many of those valiant defenders of Aaron put a dime in his defense fund? Clearly, plenty of people agreed with Ed at the time, enough that it was the highest-rating comment.

7

You could argue that the victims wouldn't get anything except for the great public good performed by these valiant legal heroes.

8

Women everywhere will appreciate your valiant display of chivalry. They shall chant "Thank you Pxtl, for saving us from male privilege!"

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And despite valiant efforts these days, it was so much better than the modern "making programming accessible" ideas. I didn't have to install anything.

10

You've made a valiant effort, and its charitable of you to keep the truthers distracted from attacking other threads, but it's time to leave them behind.

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I am going to quote the end of the article in order to make valiant attempt to prevent a budding flame war: ----------- "Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?" None.

12

Yes/no; if yes make 'valiant escape' comment / if no make 'heroic rescue' comment. It's quite different when you have to write 200 words from a basic formula with 20 keywords, compared to writing 80,000 words from a basic formula with 20 keywords.

13

While a somewhat valiant effort from a specs/control perspective, I think this is going to be a pretty big flop. Primarily because it doesn't have much of a market, which means that they won't be able to overcome the chicken-and-egg issue.

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But that freedom also meant a bunch of kids blew their hands off or worse, and if your kid dies in a gasoline accident, it's your fault as a parent and nobody says "well he just wanted his kid to be Nobel Prize material, valiant effort." It's unfair, but reality doesn't care.

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This is a lesson that was learned back in the 80s, after valiant attempts to protect games from copying. I remember things like having bad disk sectors, which were foiled by the likes of copyiipc, and then it moved on to requiring the manual for specific passcodes, which was foiled by photocopies and people simply hacking the binaries.

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You're an anonymous single-issue throwaway account; there are no comments in your whole history that aren't you taking a valiant stand against the evil forces of feminism.

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We will now see the same racial discrimination departments which filed court briefs saying that race-neutral admissions policies would make them into Asian enclaves suddenly pretend to be shocked, shocked that anyone would suggest they were anything but valiant upholders of equal opportunity. I'll refrain from opining on what the government will do, solely out of respects for the HN politics rule.

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The United States is arguably the most valiant and educated attempt at creating a small and unobtrusive government, and in a very short period it has grown into arguably one of the largest governments ever to grace the Earth. I think the only hope for lasting change is for the attitude of society toward government to change, and I do think that education and counter-economics are the best ways to show people that the roles that are supposedly only accomplishable by government in fact don't require government at all.

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Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you. They are ready enough to be your soldiers whilst you do not make war, but if war comes they take themselves off or run from the foe; which I should have little trouble to prove, for the ruin of Italy has been caused by nothing else than by resting all her hopes for many years on mercenaries, and although they formerly made some display and appeared valiant amongst themselves, yet when the foreigners came they showed what they were.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use valiant in a sentence?

We could award them a medal for their valiant effort, but you know they are dead. The war in the future isn't won or lost on their actions.

What does valiant mean?

having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"

What part of speech is valiant?

valiant is commonly used as adjective.