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.
• But neither of these come close to supporting many of the more audacious claims out there about alkaline water.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• If there was, the Texas freshman would never have dreamt of pulling off something as audacious as a mid-game between-the-legs dunk.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Mar. 2021
• Who could forget the audacious dancing your way out of L.A.'s freeway traffic?
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• China has made audacious and ambitious plans before — in 2015 — but is falling short of its goals.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• The racing commission entered the session with an audacious policy goal.
  — oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
• Almonte, Green, and Grossman admitted that the jerseys are audacious.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• Instead, the scammers designed an audacious scheme that involved many layers that unfolded gradually over months.
  — Chikezie Omeje, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2021
• As the evidence mounts to show how harmful contrails are, some engineers are reaching for an audacious solution: scrub them from the sky altogether.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• The approach, which Ross has used as a documentary filmmaker, shouldn’t make sense for a fiction project—but the result is an audacious reinvention of form.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
• Therefore, goal setting—especially for audacious goals that are unlikely to be met, or even ordinary goals during times like the present—might lead to a lot more unhappiness than happiness.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 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
• The film centers on an audacious art heist amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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 nods and lifts only grow more audacious after that; there are enough Easter eggs here for multiple farms.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024