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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This, of course, isn’t that audacious a strategic idea.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Mar. 2018
• Here's an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the most audacious space project in decades...
  — Scientific American, 7 July 2022
• This isn’t their first rodeo in the world of high-profile hacks, and their track record includes some bold, if not audacious, claims.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• The vision is audacious and is being backed by some of the smartest programmers and tech investors in the world.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• The movie is an audacious, self-scourging drama of a crisis of faith.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
• Back in his first campaign, Donald Trump had a pretty audacious idea to win the black vote.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2020
• With the impending onset of spring comes a renaissance for one of the most audacious shades of pink.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2021
• But my big hairy audacious goal is to help a million students.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• That marble floor in the entry is flat-out audacious — hello and wow!
  — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 13 Jan. 2014
• When starting a business, a founder should think about its BHAG (big hairy audacious goal).
  — Roman Kumar Vyas, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• He would not be drawn on the details of his audacious flight, said to involve boxes with air holes and a private jet.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• The Metals Company’s audacious gambit may have opened the door to deep-sea mining for the first time.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• Over the past six months, Guatemalans have made an audacious gambit to take their government back.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024