Read full poem →For which we steer’d on life’s salt stormy sea
Braving the sunstroke and the frozen pack.
If thus to look behind is all in vain,
Dictionary Entry
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
In a Sentence
“After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.”
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Common Phrases
death bravingdanger bravingdangers braving
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Poetry examples for “braving”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →passionately remember how--
braving the worst, of peril heedless,
each braver than the other, each
Read full poem →Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Read full poem →Beneath her hostile banners waving,
Every pang of honour braving,
England in thunder calls, “The tyrant’s cause is mine!”
Read full poem →Song—Braving Angry Winter’s Storms
Song—My Peggy’s Charms
Read full poem →Who can surrender to Christ, dividing his best with the stranger,
Giving to each what he asks, braving the uttermost danger
All for the enemy, MAN? Who can surrender till death