How to Use death-defying in a Sentence

death-defying

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  • Hardy’s death-defying stunts will live in the minds of fans for the rest of their lives.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The trailer shows off stunts that seem to top the death-defying moves Cruise has become known for.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Cirque du Soleil is taking its death-defying routines to the big and small screen.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2024
  • In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
  • For those who can identify with standing in line just to stop the world and get off, this is the movie for you, a death-defying and dizzying wild ride.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
  • While many of the workshops take place on the mountain, the overall program isn’t about death-defying descents.
    — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Tom goes missing and Colt must find him, while performing death-defying stunts along the way.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Big stunts and death-defying sequences are a staple of Cruise’s movie wheelhouse.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The death-defying design of the skates, along with the heavy material of the long brown skirt, would cause most athletes to face-plant within seconds.
    — Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • Are people running out to see Florence Pugh do a death-defying stunt in the newest Marvel movie?
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 3 May 2025
  • The Marshall amps became glowing LED screens, upstaged only by the death-defying rigs that move lightning-fast above the band’s heads.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
  • This match was all kinds of awesome at its peak, which saw one death-defying dive after another.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • So the filmmaker ditched the CG action and got the actors to perform their impressive, death-defying feats.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • While the city has made progress on a 50-mile circuit trail (a cause for celebration), getting to it (or to anywhere else) on two-wheels is an act of death-defying courage.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The vision of hardy frontier folk stepping up to the mic to regale friends and neighbors with gonzo tales of death-defying rescue by outerwear was too good to pass up.
    — Jay Stowe, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The care John and Jane have for one another is real, expressed in gestures as small as a bowl of homemade soup or as grand as a death-defying rescue.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The stunt, billed as the most death-defying one of Cruise’s acting career thus far, finds Cruise riding a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff and then parachuting to safety while in free fall.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • Ding, dong, a numbing offseason is done, from contract disputes to a death-defying shooting to their top draft pick.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Cirque’s death-defying maneuver For Cirque du Soleil, the fall from grace was especially painful.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Satellites have recorded the death-defying jumps since 2009, but what happens next has remained a mystery until now.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Their remarkable, death-defying journey across some 3,500 miles of ocean underlines the risks some migrants are prepared to take for a shot at a better life.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • View full post on Instagram So, when exactly will fans get to see Tom perform his latest death-defying stunt?
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The star's powerful belt booms as her Elphaba makes a death-defying leap out a high-tower window, only to soar into the sky on her broomstick.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In the film, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The students, however, don't just practice death-defying tricks all day; there's also some classroom work at circus school.
    — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Lou and Jim rose to prominence and success right as the nation took an interest in mountaineering as a death-defying sport for pros and a pastime for tourists and rich adventurers.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That loss — a capstone in a string of setbacks for Jennings — is told through the former X Games champion’s unique point of view and his singular commitment to a death-defying passion.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream — a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Through the swerving and death-defying maneuvering (Waller-Bridge punches, leaps and jumps cars and at one point is seen hanging out of the back of a car window in full action star mode), the two are bickering back and forth about the dial.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023

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