How to Use brazen in a Sentence

brazen

1 of 2 adjective

• He exhibited a brazen disregard for other people's feelings.
• The brazen sounds of the city’s brass bands were muted.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2022
• There was the brazen shooting of 79-year-old Jose Quirin.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• In fact, many birds are quite skilled at bold and brazen theft.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• The brazen pop move was not good at all, but not worthy of a 0.0.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• The brazen raid, coupled with the high death toll, raised the prospect of further bloodshed.
  — Aref Tufaha and Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• But this latest strike was the most direct and brazen yet.
  — Neri Zilber, Vox, 25 Apr. 2018
• The brazen driver that opts for a rolling stop does a proverbial head fake about the stop sign.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The flyers are a clear sign of how brazen far-right groups have become.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• The arrangement may have been too brazen even for the Donald.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 8 Feb. 2018
• In body-swap comedies, the acting is its own kind of brazen put-on fun.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
• Some of the Twitter accounts were even more brazen and had been up for years.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
• As the last few speakers died, Tapi shared a brazen plan with his father.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• The guys are keenly aware of this, which makes Otherness all the more brazen.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 10 Mar. 2022
• The beats are brazen and the bars are even more poisonously potent.
  — Scott Glaysher, Billboard, 30 June 2018
• That’s why the recent, brazen theft of her 35-pound, road warrior bike hit her so hard.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
• Popovich would prefer the Spurs to keep firing away from 3-point range, and be even more brazen about it.
  — ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• The modern world is awash in Capones, but the most brazen don’t run brothels, guns or moonshine.
  — Jay Newman, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• The brazen knockoffs, in addition to the coat’s ubiquity, are a turnoff to some.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• Mena, who’s known for her brazen beauty looks, went all out on her glam for the fancy fete.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 26 Nov. 2019
• The more brazen simply walked uncovered in the streets, risking ten years in prison.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• He was relieved to have it back, but also proud of his brazen acts of weirdness.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 22 Feb. 2022
• And the lies keep getting more brazen, which is what dictators do.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Peralta has not been charged in the brazen shooting of Ortiz in 2019.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• That’s a fairly brazen promise that hints at shenanigans to come.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 May 2022
• Where was his father then, that Toby could be so brazen?
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• But what Harden is attempting might be the most brazen move yet.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• She was sentenced to two to six years in prison for her part in the brazen robbery, as reported by Fox5.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
• Two people now face murder charges in a brazen 2023 killing inside a restaurant in the heart of the downtown L.A.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Over the course of her two albums — 2020’s The Baby and last year’s Honey — Samia has cemented herself as one of indie rock’s most poignant and brazen songwriters.
  — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024

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brazen

2 of 2 verb

• There are worse things than hypocrisy, and Pelosi will brazen through this.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• They are brazen in their desire to keep people away from the polls.
  — Errin Haines, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• Langley, for his part, tried to brazen his way through the brouhaha.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• In the case of this series, the whopper the guy tells is especially brazen.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 9 Feb. 2022
• Boylan said that the harassment grew more brazen over time.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2021
• The 42nd president and the 45th — Bill Clinton and Trump — are masters at brazening out.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 May 2020
• The menu is also brazen with rolls like the tuna chicharron ($24), made with crispy tuna skin.
  — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• Neo-Nazis—at least those not brazen enough to wear a swastika—tend to opt for less recognizable symbols.
  — Tom Birkett, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2021
• We can be appalled by these brazen shrink-the-electorate tactics, but we can’t really be shocked by them.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• And when the Monica Lewinsky scandal hit — boy, did Clinton brazen it out.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 July 2021
• The previous owners, come to find out, were brazen DIYers with a penchant for avant garde plumbing.
  — Clint Carter, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• Attacks on law enforcement are brazen and rattling to any sense of order.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• And neither the Saudis, nor anyone else, would have dared do something so brazen and disreputable again.
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 3 June 2020
• Our distinct, rich, and brazen American Single Malt — the pinnacle of whiskey.
  — Emily Price, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Once everyone packed into the car — as flashy as the coyotes are brazen — the family sped off, to attempt the perilous crossing once again.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The early April shooting was brazen even for a community that has been wracked by gun violence for decades.
  — Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 7 May 2018
• This is a question, from mentor to mentee, that Liz asks of Carmen, the peculiar and brazen new junior associate, toward the end of this week’s episode.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• Smith, the Philadelphia detective, said the shootings are as brutal as they are brazen.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2021
• That Baku would extend this project to its new dominions is brazen but unsurprising.
  — Simon Maghakyan, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• Iran's actions in open waters have grown increasingly brazen.
  — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• The thieves were getting brazen at our little Dodge truck repair shop, stealing wheels, catalytic converters and sound systems.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• That personal journey is at the center of her new memoir, Going There, which chronicles her rise through the Big Three television networks at a time when they were brazen boys’ clubs.
  — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• And furious on your behalf at your in-laws’ brazen emotional trespassing.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2022
• Across New York City, brazen pot dealers hock everything from pre-rolls to gummies on folding tables in parks, off gaudy trucks on major streets, and in storefronts painted purple, green, and gray.
  — Michael Stahl, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
• While violence has not been widespread, there have been brazen pop-up efforts at causing chaos, with limited police response.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2020
• Bourgoin’s lies ran the spectrum from pointless little fictions to brazen fabulation.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• But while there is an abundance of opportunity, there are just as many pitfalls awaiting the brand brazen enough to plunge headlong into filmmaking without putting the proper pieces in place.
  — Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Neither Russia nor China has qualms about selling weapons to even brazen human-rights violators.
  — Alexander Benard, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• For its part, China is increasingly brazen in pushing back against America (or any country that resists it).
  — The Economist, 18 June 2020
• The attack was particularly brazen because the blast occurred close to the glittering suburb of Rublyovka, home to the sprawling villas of Russia’s ruling class.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022

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