How to Use audacious in a Sentence

audacious

adjective

• They have audacious plans for the new school.
• This is her most audacious film so far.
• She made an audacious decision to quit her job.
• The film centers on an audacious art heist amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
• Then came an even more audacious idea: using cow's milk, which was thought to be superior to actual blood.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 July 2021
• And there’s a yearning for something more—an unspoken wish that things could be more interesting, more daring, more audacious.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2024
• Pray for Haiti is audacious, not because it’s trying to push the genre into different places, but because every bar is rap chemistry.
  — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• And things only got more complex, audacious, and, yes, grosser from there, resulting in a superb, incredibly likable debut season.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• The eponymous protagonist’s point of view is ingeniously embodied in the movie throughout (with one audacious exception).
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 29 June 2021
• What is remarkable is that the audacious scam of charging fees on committed uninvested capital has endured for so long at our nation’s struggling public pensions.
  — Edward Siedle, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Obviously, given the audacious goals and maximal effort so typical of the Pragmatist, this makes perfect sense.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• For a few hours on March 16, the audacious plan seemed to work.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
• The show is both about corn, and corny in an audacious way.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• That's Ryan Reynolds for you, audacious to the very edge.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
• So, in an audacious move for the early 1990s, Clarke joined the boys’ team.
  — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
• The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• Avengers: Endgame was the most audacious Marvel project of all time.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022
• This is the kind of audacious big swing too scarce in our era of low risks at high budgets.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
• To achieve your big, hairy, audacious goal is a giant leap that needs to start with a small step.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• One of the most audacious plans to come about recently hopes to put forests on Mars.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Dec. 2022
• Scorsese playing the part himself was one of the more audacious things in the film.
  — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Instead, Huneeus moved on to the other, more audacious part of Singer’s scheme.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• And some graduate to more audacious crimes; like the Big Maple Leaf theft.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
• There’s something audacious about a Black girl who dares to dream.
  — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• The goal was true to character: big, hairy and audacious.
  — Manuela Tobias, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2022
• The messages were a measure of the confidence in that audacious plan.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
• The cropped-length feels fresh, stylish, practical, groomed and a little bit audacious all at the same time.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2023
• So the thing to watch right now is whether Trump’s legal team takes the audacious step of filing such a request in the Supreme Court.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 5 June 2024
• This, of course, isn’t that audacious a strategic idea.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024