How to use "daunt" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "daunt" in popular movie and book plots

  • Its magical, non-human denizens are powerful enough to daunt even her.  - The White Rose (Cook novel)
  • This does not daunt Holmes, who interviews with and favourably impresses the conductor, Maître Gaston Leroux.  - The Canary Trainer
  • A police detective Shabor Dasgupta (Saswata Chatterjee) is entrusted with the daunting task of solving the mystery surrounding the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Swastika Mukherjee), a woman with a messy past, who was killed on the night she had thrown a party for friends and family.  - Ebar Shabor
  • With their father absent from their lives, Eddie and his brother Stewart (Angus Harrison) face the daunting prospect of potentially losing their mother just as Christmas approaches.  - My Angel (film)
  • This intrigues Harold, who soon turns the whole station upside down with his enthusiasm for the black powder used to take the imprints – and he makes a complete collection of prints from everyone in the office, including the daunting Mr Thorne, who has been pushing the police to crack down on the city’s crime.  - Welcome Danger
  • In South America, the daunting mountains and dangerous weather have hampered the operations of Trans-Andean European Air Mail, a 1930s-era airline.  - Night Flight (1933 film)
  • Similar to the unmotivated, 39-year-old protagonist of his latest film, Alex, too, faces a daunting blank page, vacillating between the commercial demands of his profession and integrity of his creative vision, youthful liberation and middle-aged inhibition.  - Ficció
  • Based on true scientific data about climate change and genuine Aramco documents dealing with the major problems facing world and Saudi oil production, The Seventh Seal takes us on a daunting journey to the impending disaster facing humankind and our planet.  - O Sétimo Selo
  • Immersed in this decaying society, Devlin realizes that to make even his own life tolerable will be a daunting task, but he goes about it the best he can, until he meets a pastor, Brother Howard, who believes that the decay of society will accelerate into a final collapse when population growth and exhaustion of natural resources bring down the only remaining healthy human institution, the economy.  - The Dream Millennium
  • Unfortunately, the "late 1922 model" dress they have selected is beyond their price range (a daunting $198); thus, acting upon the advice of Stymie, Dickie and Spanky decide to bake a cake with hidden prizes, then auction off the cake at ten cents a slice.  - Birthday Blues
  • In On Gold Mountain she objectively placed 100 years of her Chinese family history in the context of the daunting challenges Chinese immigrants faced in coming to America in search of Gold Mountain.  - Shanghai Girls
  • Whereas superheroes often wield fantastic powers, the supervillain possesses commensurate powers and abilities so that he can present a daunting challenge to the hero.  - Superhero fiction
  • She reluctantly agrees, and after requesting a more serious vehicle for her, they set about on a new version of the daunting trial of Joan of Arc, with Gianni in the director's chair.  - The Lady Without Camelias
  • Ted is skeptical, but Ellen calculates that out of all the women in New York City, there are only eight whom Ted can date; facing this daunting statistic, Ted readily agrees to try it.  - Matchmaker (How I Met Your Mother)
  • The halfway house where she lives proves to be more daunting as Sherry has tension with a fellow housemate, but finds solace in hanging her daughter's artwork she sent to Sherry in prison.  - Sherrybaby
  • The US is faced with the daunting task of keeping under indefinite harsh military occupation A vast satellite block with hostile populations, with the conquered Confederate Nations being added to the previously held Canadian ones, as well as the smaller Mormon Utah.  - Settling Accounts: In at the Death
  • Surprisingly, Young-joon turns out to be a big time gangster while Gi-dong becomes a daunting phys ed teacher who transferred to a high school in Gyeongju.  - Kick the Moon
  • The bonfire's total height comes up a foot short, Harvey climbs to the summit and deposits his three-foot chair, a very brave and daunting achievement.  - High Time (film)
  • Arriving at Mon Repos Poirot speaks with the daunting and domineering Lady Astwell who tells him that Sir Reuben's brother and business partner, Victor, is also a guest in the house.  - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
  • The building is evacuated as both Nick and Russell volunteer to stay behind to handle the daunting task of landing all the planes on approach in their airspace before the alleged bomb is set to go off in 26 minutes.  - Pushing Tin
  • Coke called Garnet "a doctor of five Ds, namely, of dissimulation, of deposing of princes, of disposing of kingdoms, of daunting and deterring of subjects, and of destruction".  - Henry Garnet
  • Thinking of how grateful his favorite lady will be when he comes to her rescue, Master Higgins embarks on a daunting quest to get to his honey.  - Adventure Island II

Example sentences for "daunt" in interesting articles

  • There is no doubt it’s a complex project, and a little daunting to get involved in at first.  - Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access
  • This is why it’s very difficult for a small company with a limited amount of cash in the bank to go straight to retail distribution with their first production run.Expect to lose money if you sell your first production run through retail.Trends at ScaleA 5,000 unit production run can seem pretty daunting for first-time founders, but it’s peanuts relative to successful consumer products.  - Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money?
  • (If you’re a the lucky duck writing to a central location with identifier+version namespacing, you can skip all of this.)Neither of these approaches is foolproof, but I’m guessing they’ll hold up fine in practice.DénouementWriting a general guide to all the considerations for a PDM is a daunting task.  - So you want to write a package manager
  • Although it may seem daunting to face this much investigative power, there is a great deal of control that you have to protect yourself.  - Twitter Activist Security
  • In order to rein-in an increasingly daunting beast of a monolith, standardization of practices is an excellent, if temporary bandaid fix.  - Microservices, the Unix Philosophy, and the Richardson Maturity Model
  • I even read how business culture in India works yet I found it very daunting and communications took a lot of energy alone.  - Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
  • Eventually they return home to continue their assignments, without workplace benefits and at wages a fraction of what their American counterparts were paid. UCSF officials say the decision to outsource 97 IT jobs, about 20% to the total IT headcount, was forced on it by daunting economic challenges.  - How UC exploited a visa loophole to move tech jobs to India
  • This was perhaps less daunting then, when a game project might employ ten or twenty developers, than it is now, with development teams tipping the scales at two-hundred or more developers. The source of Warcraft The developers at the startup company I worked for — then named Silicon & Synapse but later renamed Blizzard in a nod towards our tempestuous development methodology — played a great many games during our free time.  - The Making of Warcraft 1: Origin of the series & creation of multi-unit select
  • This was perhaps less daunting then, when a game project might employ ten or twenty developers, than it is now, with development teams tipping the scales at two-hundred or more developers. The source of Warcraft The developers at the startup company I worked for — then named Silicon & Synapse but later renamed Blizzard in a nod towards our tempestuous development methodology — played a great many games during our free time.  - The Making of Warcraft (2012)
  • He did so by helping to convince a military tribunal that the only evidence that Jawad had purportedly thrown a hand grenade at a passing American convoy in 2002 had been extracted by torture.By comparison, Frakt’s presentation in April to the Florida Coastal School of Law’s faculty and staff seemed to pose a far less daunting challenge.  - The Law-School Scam
  • Otherwise students might find it too daunting to get started or get stuck on irrelevant edge cases.  - Hacker School Residency
  • This can be very daunting and arduous.  - Teach Hacking in High Schools

Meaning of "daunt" in English

  • discouraging through fear

Meaning of "daunt" in Hindi

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Synonyms of "daunt"

  • intimidating

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