377 examples of daunting in sentences

Again the boy was alone with the daunting forces of the dark in its grimmest and most terrifying mood.

She clutched the window-sill and stood choking and blinded, fighting with a crowd of daunting recollections and miserable apprehensions.

She felt the daunting loneliness, the quiet jarred her nerve.

All was quiet and the quiet was daunting.

Perhaps the risk was not very daunting, but he knew he must not roll down far.

The handful of men had undertaken a big thing; there was much against them, and daunting risks must be run.

There was a confusing flash of steel and a daunting uproar.

He could not hear his engines; one heard nothing but the daunting uproar.

The factory was rather a daunting spot; reeking with foul smells and haunted by a sense of gloom.

There was something insidious and daunting about the African coast.

His own ablutions were performed in the clean, hopeful dust of the chaparral; and whenever he happened on their morning splatterings, he would depress his glossy crest, slant his shining tail to the level of his body, until he looked most like some bright venomous snake, daunting them with shrill abuse and feint of battle.

This look, however, was far from daunting him, and he returned it with the most fascinating smile.

Then his thee home, that art our perfect guide, And with thy wit illustrate Englands fame, Daunting therby our neighbors ancient pride, That do for Poesie challenge chiefest name: So we that live, and ages that succeed, With great applause thy learned works shall reed.

Miss Osborn liked him, but her father's rank and traditions were daunting obstacles.

It was not for nothing men called him the Buccaneer, and now that he was staking his life and fortune on a hazardous chance there was something daunting about his grim resolve.

They sank in mud and stagnant water and no light pierced the daunting gloom, but it was not hard to keep the proper line, because one could not enter the jungle without a cutlass to clear a path.

Although Osborn said nothing, his face got red and the veins on his forehead swelled, and Gerald found his silence strangely daunting.

He was freshly shaved, freshly pressed, freshly anointed, and, as he paced gallantly across my vision, I perceived him to be slightly grizzled at the temples, but nevertheless of a vigorous and grim youthfulness that was almost daunting.

Passing its closed gates daily, I was always sensible of a qualm of the spirit, a daunting prescience that the stilled mansion still harbored the ghost of an unlaid secret.

"The future hides in it Gladness and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting us,onward!"

This unwelcome advice while daunting all mercenary promoters gave spur to strong-hearted patriots.

A bullet grazed Black Rifle's head, but instead of daunting him it seemed to give him a kind of fierce joy, and to inspire in him a greater desire to slay.

But as a rule these gracious people have nothing that is formidable or daunting about them; they are quiet and simple; and having no cards to play and no game to win, they are at leisure to make the best of other people.

"The future hides in it Gladness and sorrow; We press still thorow, Nought that abides in it Daunting usonward.

She did not know how dignified she looked, and how she was daunting his insolence.

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