How to Use in-your-face in a Sentence

in-your-face

adjective

• But that kind of in-your-face move could spark a messy veto fight.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Aries often prefer in-your-face wines, like a Cab, Brown says.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
• Suggs is one of the most in-your-face perimeter defenders in the NBA this season.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
• 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
• No one ever accused Skrillex of subtlety, and this is prime in-your-face fun.
  — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• The flavor of the boozy version isn’t nearly as in-your-face orange as its inspiration.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• The same goes for any in-your-face promos for solutions shoppers perceive as nonessential.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Four model years in now, the X3 M Competition's in-your-face attitude remains intact.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
• The typical housewife’s wardrobe is packed with in-your-face labels, audacious colors, and gaudy jewelry.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The memorials are in-your-face reminders of institutional failure and widespread impunity.
  — Luis Antonio Rojas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024