Mettle
in example sentence
Although he was low-key and not good at politicking, Carter had the rare
mettle
– evident in his moving 2018 interview with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert – to be prepared to lose for a moral cause.
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We need to do much more globally to give these new doctors the opportunity to prove their
mettle.
And soon, the behemoth would encounter a ship of invaders that would test his
mettle.
You see that your
mettle
as an athlete is not only tested on race day but every single day, when the sport demands that you get up at 4:30 in the morning, swim for two hours, go to school, come back, swim for three hours, go home, eat and sleep.
One of his bouts of inebriation leads to an incident that enrages the local community and tests the
mettle
of the two sisters (Jean Muir and Laraine Day) that are close to him (and to each other).
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