How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun

• His stories are always told with bravado.
• I remember his youthful bravado.
• The life had not seeped out of them, but the bravado had.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• Fink no longer talks about the issue with the bravado of a change agent.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• Kendall is the show’s dark prince, a would-be mogul puffed up with false bravado.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
• While that may seem like bravado, that came to fruition.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
• The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In one, a girl stands in the kitchen of a Bronx shelter, her arm twisted in the air with the bravado of a dancer.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• At the last minute, with a bit of bravado, the BofA lawyer does a modest re-trade.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• On the other hand, all this bravado from the Trump campaign is baloney.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And, such a carefree ethos and burn-it-down bravado played out behind the scenes, too.
  — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• These mice will march right up to a cat, the very picture of foolish bravado.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Texas is a big state known for its bravado, some earned and some fiction.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• His anger was sudden, his bravado clearly a show for the Creef boy.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• This is a brazen Grizzlies bunch that oozes Morant’s bravado.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• Gabriel said all of the right things afterward, but added his own twist of bravado.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• False bravado only works when there is a modicum of truth to it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• In the famous episode, Fonzie donned a pair of water skis and jumped over a shark in a display of bravado.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• All of the pro-Trump bravado annoyed Welsh and her friends, but Trabert stood out.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• For all of its bravado about changing the world, the tech industry is very much a man's world.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 24 June 2017
• With just a tad of Texas bravado, Grant likens it to the nightly light show at the Eiffel Tower.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• The right chairman is someone who can balance the bravado with the cold, hard truth that Elon Musk can’t save the world alone.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
• Mario is also a man with boundless bravado and a man with flaws.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2017
• Men who risk their health and well-being, on the other hand, prove their bravado for the respect of their peers.
  — Kristen Barber, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
• All this sets up a prime chance for Mason to back up his summer bravado.
  — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017
• But beneath all the bravado, Trump still has fears just like anybody else.
  — Ben Schreckinger, GQ, 12 Jan. 2018
• Despite the bravado, there are rising doubts that North Korea has dodged the virus.
  — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• And just on the other side of James stood Kevin Durant, the one player who has been able to crack Edwards’ bravado and turn him from fearless to fanboy.
  — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
• Wood’s bravado was typical of Northern dissenters against the Union.
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024