How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun

• His stories are always told with bravado.
• I remember his youthful bravado.
• Choose discipline over bravado, and let your results be your calling card.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Leos are also known to exhibit bravado and let their pride get the best of them, Stardust shares.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
• For all of Trump’s bravado in the face of a near-death experience, the attempt on his life revealed a warm and fuzzy side.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 21 July 2024
• Despite her bravado, Lam’s remarks were widely welcomed by her critics.
  — Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• With just a tad of Texas bravado, Grant likens it to the nightly light show at the Eiffel Tower.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• Despite his resistance and bravado, Grandpa is probably afraid, too.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• It’s also the guy that Baker Mayfield knows, the one who used to wake up feeling dangerous but swore off that kind of bravado until the walk matched the talk.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
• There are certain men who are gonna look at a masculine fraud like Trump and identify with his machismo, his bravado — which is not backed up by anything — but will identify with him in that way.
  — Errin Haines, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• Few scholars would have the bravado, or the imaginative dexterity, for such supposings, and it’s a thrill to see a living poet treat a dead one not as a monument but as a partner in crime.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• The bravado expected of Orlando as a man in the 17th century seems to be on display daily in the 21st-century news.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2020
• Their plush lifestyles, steely bravado, and disregard for the IRS fuels this electric collaboration.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2020
• Ernest Hemingway had aligned the mustache with distinctly American ideas of masculine bravado, concision and sport.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• The life had not seeped out of them, but the bravado had.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• Fink no longer talks about the issue with the bravado of a change agent.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• Kendall is the show’s dark prince, a would-be mogul puffed up with false bravado.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
• While that may seem like bravado, that came to fruition.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
• The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In one, a girl stands in the kitchen of a Bronx shelter, her arm twisted in the air with the bravado of a dancer.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• At the last minute, with a bit of bravado, the BofA lawyer does a modest re-trade.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• On the other hand, all this bravado from the Trump campaign is baloney.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And, such a carefree ethos and burn-it-down bravado played out behind the scenes, too.
  — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• These mice will march right up to a cat, the very picture of foolish bravado.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Texas is a big state known for its bravado, some earned and some fiction.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• His anger was sudden, his bravado clearly a show for the Creef boy.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• This is a brazen Grizzlies bunch that oozes Morant’s bravado.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• Gabriel said all of the right things afterward, but added his own twist of bravado.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• False bravado only works when there is a modicum of truth to it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 July 2020

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024