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Sentence count:224+11Posted:2017-02-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: boldbravechivalrouscourageousgallantstalwartvaliantSimilar words: asteroidvoicestoicchoicerejoiceadroitbroilerembroilMeaning: [hɪ'rəʊɪk]  n. a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter. adj. 1. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) 2. relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity 3. having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes 4. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope 5. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort. 
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91. But in prison he perhaps recaptured some of his lost knighthood in telling the heroic stories of the Round Table.
92. But few were ready to engage in heroic resistance to the last.
93. Anyone who worked with him recognised his uncanny ability to find something oddly heroic in all the manifestations of human weakness.
94. The heroic and hum-drum, the fun and the tragedies, all are recounted in this eye-witness account of Bomber Command operations.
95. It is a rollicking mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of Restoration and post-Restoration heroic drama with all its bombast and extravagance.
96. Soldiers made heroic efforts to get all the civilians out of the city.
97. In gratitude for his heroic efforts over Henry the police had apprehended Duggie on the towpath.
98. Yet during his Saturday night guest appearance Julio Bocca danced the ballet with a heroic degree of conviction.
99. Those in history who have died heroic deaths, no matter for what cause, have usually been granted immunity from criticism.
100. Either by gradually losing their pumping capacity or by sudden seizure, they cause much disease and some heroic surgical intervention.
101. One of their sons, whom I particularly envied for his heroic biceps, was named Eleven.
102. The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks.
103. Nor has this heroic constancy been exceptional, limited to a few chosen souls.
104. Although the nationalists put up heroic resistance, the revolt was crushed in three days.
105. That man was scarcely a heroic figure, however genial and powerful in manpower, but never ambitious to lead.
106. Scrapbooks and bottles of paste and cutout articles of the young Dove braving gales in canoes, performing heroic acts.
107. Stories about family heroes teach youngsters what it means to be heroic.
108. Sweetman splits his subject in half into Gauguin, a morally reprehensible man, and Gauguin, a heroic artist.
109. The national anthem continues to glorify the same native land of brave forefathers and heroic exploits.
110. Despite heroic efforts by the scientists, these virgin-born turkeys rarely progressed beyond the stage of simple embryos.
111. The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile.
112. Bob Champion's success on Aldaniti in 1981 provided one of the most heroic chapters in racing history.
113. A child died of malaria at the Schweitzer Hospital one recent night,(http://sentencedict.com/heroic.html) but there were no heroic measures.
114. This is not what the Suffragettes, and others, envisaged in their heroic struggles to win the vote.
115. The beautiful female nudes in this show, rendered large and golden, are at once sensual, heroic and strong.
116. The Art Gallery was a box of delights of heroic proportions.
117. Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.
118. This was certainly not the most glamorous or heroic of episodes.
119. Marriage frequently requires heroic compromise on the part of one or both spouses.
120. Lived out as the grandfather has lived it, such a desire maroons the self in heroic narrative.
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