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.
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The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021 -
The man has the audacity to lean in for a kiss, but Jenn gives him the cheek.
— Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 July 2024 -
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 | Mheim@al.com, 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 -
Anyone who has the audacity to tell you that a makeup-only Halloween costume is somehow lazy deserves a good jump scare.
— Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Oct. 2024 -
This combination of empathy and audacity in storytelling has been key to their content's ability to cut through the noise.
— Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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