How to Use in-your-face in a Sentence
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But that kind of in-your-face move could spark a messy veto fight.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
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But this in-your-face modern tragedy has something to say and says it with verve and style.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
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Aries often prefer in-your-face wines, like a Cab, Brown says.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
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Suggs is one of the most in-your-face perimeter defenders in the NBA this season.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
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The subtext, and sometimes the in-your-face text is that exercise is mostly about weight loss and how one looks.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
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No one ever accused Skrillex of subtlety, and this is prime in-your-face fun.
—Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
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These pieces are all designed to fit the Jean Paul Gaultier narrative of cheeky, fun, and in-your-face clothing.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
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Rodrigo's whole look is a far cry from the brazen, in-your-face outfits of the 2000s: Her letting the fuzzy top be the focal point feels like just the right amount of statement.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2023
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With no off-road package and an in-your-face mug that limits its approach angle, the LX lacks the off-road chops of its Toyota kin.
—Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
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At New York’s Hudson Yards shopping center, any store with an in-your-face sale sign was drawing a crowd.
—Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2023
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At New York's Hudson Yards shopping center, any store with an in-your-face sale sign was drawing a crowd.
—Jeannette Neumann and Olivia Rockeman Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
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Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
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The flavor of the boozy version isn’t nearly as in-your-face orange as its inspiration.
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
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The same goes for any in-your-face promos for solutions shoppers perceive as nonessential.
—John Hall, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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There are elements of the brash, in-your-face sound of The Girls Are Back in town, but now it’s tempered with a sweeter, lighter approach that’s at times vulnerable.
—Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
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Both have an in-your-face approach to coaching with the ideology defense should always come first.
—Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
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The show became the standard bearer of a new brand of in-your-face television in the 1990s that audiences embraced and critics decried as exploitive and tasteless.
—Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
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They were dressed in one of their tour outfits: all sparkly, shimmery sequins and shoulder pads, a throwback to the 2000s and the unabashed, in-your-face positivity that was, and is, RBD.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
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One designed to be a jokey conversation piece, though at least half the joke is the title, which is so hilariously basic, so 1980s-meets-Tik-Tok, so balls-out-and-in-your-face.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
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Ben Davis did it with a team that played together and unselfish, turning on the jets when necessary with an in-your-face press and sharing the ball like a team that truly did not care who received the credit.
—The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2023
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This season, blossoms are having quite a moment—not just your traditional floral prints, but in-your-face, 3D blooms that almost appear to come to life.
—Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
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Four model years in now, the X3 M Competition's in-your-face attitude remains intact.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
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The typical housewife’s wardrobe is packed with in-your-face labels, audacious colors, and gaudy jewelry.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
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But while arguably the most in-your-face example of how law enforcement agencies are tapping AI technology for policing, the K5 is just the tip of a much more discrete iceberg.
—Bysage Lazzaro, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
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But, as is tradition, the haters hardly scratched the surface of this sixth record, overlooking its genuine feats of all-encompassing production and high-energy, in-your-face vocals.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
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Wilks was direct: The 49ers, known for playing zone coverage and blitzing sparingly, have corners capable of playing more in-your-face press coverage.
—Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
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Getting into a personal slugfest day after day with the former president, who a master of in-your-face politics, may not be a sustainable strategy.
—Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 1 June 2023
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The interior is adorned with the pretentiously in-your-face creations of one of its occupants, artist Rigoberto Duplas (Fernando Bonilla).
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
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The memorials are in-your-face reminders of institutional failure and widespread impunity.
—Luis Antonio Rojas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
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This was the latest step in Alito’s defiant, intemperate, and in-your-face response to revelations about his ethics violations.
—Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2023
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