How to Use audacity in a Sentence

audacity

noun

• He had the audacity to suggest that it was all my fault.
• I could not believe their audacity.
• But a lack of audacity has never been Ibrahimovic’s problem.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
• When Paper Boi stands up to walk out of the barbershop, Bibby has the audacity to ask him to pay for his fresh cut.
  — Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
• Robert Reed Church had been pelted with rocks for having the audacity as a black man to be the only man in Memphis with a sled.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
• But Trump tends to operate on the principle that audacity will be rewarded and new scandals will always come along to crowd out old ones.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 19 Mar. 2018
• My friend Leonid Shvets, a journalist based in Kyiv, was thrilled by the audacity of the Kursk offensive.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• In a makeshift kitchen behind the bar, Kem had the audacity to serve escargot, on opening night at the neighborhood craft brewery Cannonball.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2018
• Snotty Guys’ The audacity of the venture, coming on the heels of the Clairtone failure, suggests more than optimism was at play.
  — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• While these guerrilla protesters number only in the dozens, Iran’s government has taken notice of their audacity.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• The man has the audacity to lean in for a kiss, but Jenn gives him the cheek.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 July 2024
• The audacity displayed by the avalanche of moves has made the Padres the talk of baseball.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• But also be thrilled by the gall of Eve to do that; like the audacity of it thrills her.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• That is the cost of coming to see a work that has the audacity to put the word slave in its title.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• The $1 million prize and the audacity of the challenge drew in all sorts of hopefuls.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
• What struck me [here] was the sheer audacity, the bold approach.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• The audacity of the play and height of his jump were equally as shocking.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The audacity of a nerdy, brown, ridiculous boy as the hero of his own story!
  — Glynn Washington, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• For those with the audacity to swipe while awaiting their shots, well, good luck to you.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• The audacity of art, the boldness that went into the book itself, is nowhere to be found.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
• People who, on a warm and rainy June morning, had the audacity to think the trains might run on time.
  — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• And in that case, the joke was really just the audacity of doing it.
  — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
• The man got out of his truck, had the audacity to touch Ernesto’s body, then got back in his vehicle and drove away.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2018
• The, the, the audacity of what was happening here makes this worth talking about.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• His style has evolved a ton over his eight years in the NBA, but there's been evidence of audacity from the start.
  — Devin Gordon, GQ, 12 Apr. 2018
• The rest of the Spurs, meanwhile, could only sit back and admire the audacity of Johnson to try such a thing.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bird, perhaps shocked at her audacity, turned and flew away.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The audacity of the young quarterback, who would win three straight against the Crimson Tide.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• But the fourth circle was a collection of every white dude who has ever had the audacity to rap on reality TV.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024