How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun

• His stories are always told with bravado.
• I remember his youthful bravado.
• The team’s apparent depth in the backfield also plays a role in Whitlow’s bravado.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 14 Aug. 2019
• As brash as that might sound, the 34-year-old striker certainly comes by his bravado honestly.
  — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Miller possesses plenty of bravado and experienced success as a rookie at a position where that can be difficult to achieve.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps some of it was American bravado, but a brief canvassing didn't return a result any closer than 3-1.
  — SI.com, 24 June 2019
• Publishing a single-author paper on one of the major open problems in physics as a graduate student would seem to have required fearlessness and bravado.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2019
• The pair forge an uneasy alliance, with Naif’s understated, brooding acting playing off of Biton’s blustery bravado.
  — Nora McGreevy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• A day later, Biden was out, Harris was mobilized, and Trump’s bravado evaporated.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• Like her work in Blonde, De Armas substitutes overt sexuality for character study, hoping bravado can obscure her shortcomings.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024