How to Use bodacious in a Sentence

bodacious

adjective
  • This is the season for the big, the bold and the bodacious.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Chase the bodacious bowl with a bright Provençal rosé, one of a handful of wines on tap.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • In the show, the sister duo is seen sporting big bodacious curls.
    Shelby Stewart, Chron, 6 May 2021
  • That's right—this bodacious gal will be listed on Airbnb for the first time ever next month.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 27 Feb. 2020
  • There, in line, is a bodacious boxer who can't but bring to mind Muhammad Ali.
    Philly.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • There could be a hundred bodacious bears in the river and folks would only have eyes for Otis.
    Christy Namee Eriksen, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Not taking any time at all to get used to is Midwood Smokehouse, where the staff is friendly and the food bodacious.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Nov. 2019
  • So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
    Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Sidewalk spots are snapped up early (some as early as the night before) to spy the bright, bodacious floats.
    OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
  • The legacy of his bodacious charisma was built to last well beyond his death on Friday.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 4 June 2016
  • Luckily, some of the most bodacious bears to make the competition are back again.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The woman at the bar was right: The potatoes mashed with generous amounts of butter and cream (and roasted garlic for oomph) are bodacious.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • My bodacious sisters know that the hardest thing about traveling while curvy is those narrow seats and tiny seat belts.
    Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Sporting a bodacious mullet, Ranallo screeched and spat at the camera.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • One bull is still on the run after an accident caused nearly a dozen bodacious bovines to get buck wild in Cherokee Park Friday.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Serving body, beauty and bodacious all-around talent, Sasha is fierce.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Serving body, beauty, and bodacious all-around talent, Sasha is fierce.
    Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The second featured fiberglass surfboards, similar to the ones at Surfhenge, the bodacious installment near the city’s pier.
    Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • Later, a sea of bodacious models begin dancing on a rooftop, where Juicy J later appears clad in a white sweater.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018
  • For a long time, it's been assumed that as our brains got bigger and more bodacious, our teeth shrank proportionately.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2017
  • Plates from around the world and antlers Gleason purchased in Montana complete the bodacious combination.
    Elisabeth Malkin, ELLE Decor, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Or Alexander McQueen’s knuckle box, whose clasp is a series of bodacious finger rings?
    Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Gucci Mane's signee, Hoodrich Pablo Juan, follows suit and raps about his affinity for fancy cars and bodacious women throughout his verse.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Directed by Travis Scott, the video finds Future arriving on the scene inside a luxe Maybach with a bodacious model alongside him.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Nov. 2022
  • With two bodacious dancers in tow, Cardi’s magnetic appeal instantly had the crowd hooked.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Just in time for the Memorial Day kick off to summer, here are thirty-three bodacious bombshells worth celebrating.
    Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 29 May 2017
  • Big, beautiful, bodacious and juicy — the classic here’s-a-gorgeous-burger-that-even-carnivores-would-like.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 16 July 2020
  • The song marks Meg’s first collaboration with Future, who meets her bodacious bars with horny lines delivered with his trademark frost.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022
  • From bodacious spring blooms to killer summer and fall foliage, stunning fruit and intriguing winter bark, everybody wants that four-season plant.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Soon after that, the club's bodacious dancers undergo a transformation and morph into dance-happy demons.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2017

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