How to Use audacity in a Sentence

audacity

noun

• He had the audacity to suggest that it was all my fault.
• I could not believe their audacity.
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• The audacity displayed by the avalanche of moves has made the Padres the talk of baseball.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• But also be thrilled by the gall of Eve to do that; like the audacity of it thrills her.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• That is the cost of coming to see a work that has the audacity to put the word slave in its title.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• The $1 million prize and the audacity of the challenge drew in all sorts of hopefuls.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
• What struck me [here] was the sheer audacity, the bold approach.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• The audacity of the play and height of his jump were equally as shocking.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The audacity of a nerdy, brown, ridiculous boy as the hero of his own story!
  — Glynn Washington, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• For those with the audacity to swipe while awaiting their shots, well, good luck to you.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• The audacity of art, the boldness that went into the book itself, is nowhere to be found.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
• People who, on a warm and rainy June morning, had the audacity to think the trains might run on time.
  — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• And in that case, the joke was really just the audacity of doing it.
  — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
• The man got out of his truck, had the audacity to touch Ernesto’s body, then got back in his vehicle and drove away.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2018
• The, the, the audacity of what was happening here makes this worth talking about.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• The rest of the Spurs, meanwhile, could only sit back and admire the audacity of Johnson to try such a thing.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bird, perhaps shocked at her audacity, turned and flew away.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The audacity of the young quarterback, who would win three straight against the Crimson Tide.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• And then one person had the audacity to call the police on me within earshot.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• The house itself had a heft and audacity that was striking.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• Had his agent asked for one, the Sixers would have snickered at the audacity of such a request.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
• Lin had the audacity, like you, to make that my first dialogue scene.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The audacity of Ted Lasso to give us a love so pure and charming only to rip it away so soon!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Yet the airlines have the audacity to turn in hundreds of pages of ways to make their lives easier.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2018
• Miranda finds a condom and has the audacity to get mad about it, given the Che of it all.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• Still others may be caught up in the very audacity that stirs a person to become a writer in the first place.
  — Paul Elie, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2017
• This was a guy who had the sheer audacity to marry 27 women in a single day.
  — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• How does anyone have the audacity to claim their socks can be worn concern-free for days on end?
  — Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
• The interloper then has the audacity to head back to the holding pen with the other women and take a seat.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024