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.
• 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 last Democratic president urged his party to embrace the audacity of hope.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2020
• Scorsese and his fans get caught up in audacity and bravado, which allows them to ignore the degradation or enjoy it with a shrug of smirky indifference.
  — Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
• Yet the engine of this story, propelling it endlessly forward, is something much less glamorous: the pathos of two regular-seeming people with the audacity to blow up their own lives.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 8 Apr. 2020
• Coffee & Kareem first caught my attention because its title suggested some kind of satirical audacity.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• And then one person had the audacity to call the police on me within earshot.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• The house itself had a heft and audacity that was striking.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• Had his agent asked for one, the Sixers would have snickered at the audacity of such a request.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
• Lin had the audacity, like you, to make that my first dialogue scene.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The audacity of Ted Lasso to give us a love so pure and charming only to rip it away so soon!
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Towne had found an original sin on which to build his story, but the audacity of the crime and the sheer depth of conspiracy required to pull it off seemed impossible to fit into a screenplay.
  — Chris Stanton, The Atlantic, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024