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How to use mettle in a sentence

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This is really the basis of assessing character, where people show their true mettle.
He can start by showing mettle and reversing the decision to hold a public inquiry.
It will take sterner tests before we see the true mettle of these Mayo players.
Coventry's opening was brisk and sufficiently to the point to put Tottenham on their mettle.
The crowd at the Halton Stadium can be a vociferous lot anyway, so we will have to be on our mettle.
As someone who has hitherto needed to reject one thing before moving on to another, Juliet is on her mettle, and she knows it.
They will need to be on their mettle again to hold out the talented Stars attack.
The iron men and women of Kerry proved their mettle at the weekend when they competed in a gruelling triathlon to raise funds for a worthy cause.
In true mettle, Usha had hundreds of colourfully dressed students dancing to her mesmeric voice for the full dress rehearsal on Thursday.
York were on their mettle from the off and led 22-13 at the five ends stage with two rinks winning and two rinks drawing.
This way of thinking was made explicit only when critics such as Vincenzo Borghini were put on their mettle to defend the Baptistery's antiquity.
He established his championship mettle as the defensive heart and soul of the team.
Negotiating the corporate maze can test the mettle of even the most resourceful individuals.
Though many Montrealers enjoy proving their mettle cycling through traffic, cycling paths are available for recreational purposes.
Such rapid growth also tests their mettle as stewards of the built environment.
It has been a difficult season for Fletcher, one in which his mettle has been tested to the maximum.
So begins a harrowing adventure that tests the young girl's mettle, revealing hidden strengths she didn't know she had.
The true test of a restaurant's dessert mettle is the dessert tasting menu.
The guard dogs howled occasionally to keep the wild boar in the woods on their mettle.
Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But the progenitors of the iron horse were, like their Herculean child, men of mettle.
Some of them took to flight, but, pfui, there were enough for my young lord to show his mettle upon.
We think that it is a mistake to put our artists on their mettle in this way.
Nevertheless, to-day as then, in the coeducational institution she is more consciously on her mettle than the man.
Well lat alane thae subtle questions, my Dione, said Nashon, an try our mettle.
They did not know the mettle that was in this grandnephew of the great Gustavus.
It needed no persuasion to put the most slothful of the crew upon their mettle.
A day might come for him and the vehement old ironer to try their mettle in a tussle.
Ganymede was of a tenacious mettle, and of this he now afforded proof.
A harsh, thin cackle behind the curtains put the hillman on his mettle for a second shot.
Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.
The rector proved himself a competitor worthy of the minister's mettle.
It put the British major on his mettle to keep pace with him.
Poor fun having a fire brigade, and no chance to show its mettle.
You had better mettle as mit ter deyvel, as mit ter hunters, Tey live mit ter gun, and a rifle is better as ter law.
Here was a chance for the tyros before him to show their mettle.
And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture let us swear That you are worth your breeding.
The assistant was on his mettle, and either failed or triumphed.
They'll be on their mettle, the both of 'em, more 'specially Diablo.
This set me on my mettle, and I worked hard and with some success.
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