How to Use audacious in a Sentence

audacious

adjective

• They have audacious plans for the new school.
• This is her most audacious film so far.
• She made an audacious decision to quit her job.
• Why does delivering the one thing everyone in the world needs merit such an audacious approach?
  — Ben Hubbard, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2020
• Its audacious goal was to make American runners once again competitive with the rest of the world.
  — oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2020
• But Kirk’s most audacious move of the 2024 cycle was one that was well out of his traditional youth lane.
  — Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
• But perhaps none were as audacious as President Grover Cleveland.
  — Amy McKeever and David Beard, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• But this resort, currently dubbed Mayflower Mountain Resort, is audacious even for him.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• For a few hours on March 16, the audacious plan seemed to work.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
• The show is both about corn, and corny in an audacious way.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• That's Ryan Reynolds for you, audacious to the very edge.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
• So, in an audacious move for the early 1990s, Clarke joined the boys’ team.
  — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• Avengers: Endgame was the most audacious Marvel project of all time.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022
• This is the kind of audacious big swing too scarce in our era of low risks at high budgets.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• To achieve your big, hairy, audacious goal is a giant leap that needs to start with a small step.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• One of the most audacious plans to come about recently hopes to put forests on Mars.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Dec. 2022
• Scorsese playing the part himself was one of the more audacious things in the film.
  — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• There is still fun to be had in an audacious picture such as this.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
• Instead, Huneeus moved on to the other, more audacious part of Singer’s scheme.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The film centers on an audacious art heist amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
• And some graduate to more audacious crimes; like the Big Maple Leaf theft.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
• There’s something audacious about a Black girl who dares to dream.
  — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• The goal was true to character: big, hairy and audacious.
  — Manuela Tobias, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2022
• The messages were a measure of the confidence in that audacious plan.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• The cropped-length feels fresh, stylish, practical, groomed and a little bit audacious all at the same time.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2023
• So the thing to watch right now is whether Trump’s legal team takes the audacious step of filing such a request in the Supreme Court.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 5 June 2024
• This, of course, isn’t that audacious a strategic idea.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Mar. 2018
• Here's an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the most audacious space project in decades...
  — Scientific American, 7 July 2022

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025