How to Use temerity in a Sentence

temerity

noun

• He was punished for his temerity.
• A wisp of a kid (six feet, 160 pounds) with the temerity to buzz pitches up and in to Barry Bonds, Hudson has a bit of Pedro in him.
  — ESPN, 24 July 2000
• And embolden them, and give them the temerity to go out in the wilderness and try to survive.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• As in men clutching theirs every time a female sports star has the temerity to act like one.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Mormonism also had the temerity to believe in prophets in the age of photographs.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• Boselli had the temerity to claim the referees favored the Pats.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• There were those with the temerity to vigorously disagree with me.
  — Judith Newman, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• All who’ve had the temerity to speak up have risen to McConnell’s defense.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 11 Aug. 2017
• Not everyone has the temerity to withstand a horror movie.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 25 Oct. 2017
• Gough even had the temerity to compare Black civil rights activists to the heads of organized crime.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• One Hannity guest had the temerity to dissent — sort of.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• The hope is the children can help fight lingering vaccine temerity with a big dose of reality.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 12 May 2021
• In case the special counsel had the temerity to press his request, Mr Trump’s lawyers raised a third spectre.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• That tweet reflected the tone of much of their coverage, in which the onus for the problem was on those with the temerity to protest against a tyrannical regime, not on the forces of repression.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 7 Jan. 2018
• Herb Caen had the temerity to say first what only months before might have been considered delusional.
  — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2022
• Then came news Wednesday that in the days before his firing, Comey had the temerity to ask for more resources to aid the Russian probe.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 10 May 2017
• But Justice Samuel Alito had the temerity to point out the obvious.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• Later that year, serendipity joined persistence and temerity as a determiner of the drug’s fate.
  — Stephanie Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
• So where does that leave those who still have the temerity to be troubled by poor, persecuted Thomas and his generous benefactors?
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Earlier this season, a home plate umpire had the temerity to throw a bat to the on-deck circle, denying Finn his greatest pleasure in life.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Some even had the temerity to display diamond-blue skies in their Instas, tweets, and Facebook posts.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
• It must be hoped by the franchise and its fans that Lauer’s stuff does play at this level, because his temerity and temperament certainly do.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• That Judge Kavanaugh had the temerity to defend himself vigorously is now being counted as a strike against him.
  — Orrin Hatch, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• Should the Supreme Court have the temerity to rule against the new administration, it is hinted, the Court could be packed with liberal judges.
  — Douglas Carswell, National Review, 7 Feb. 2021
• Point guard Kyle Lowry, in fact, noticed that, when first shown the postgame box score, laughing that Tucker had the temerity to take that many shots.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• The same person who had the temerity to call out others for rule-breaking now faces the NCAA’s wrath in a way few of his peers have or ever well.
  — Rainer Sabin, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Armchair GMs criticized the perennial doormat that had the temerity to believe this wouldn’t be its only shot.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• After more than three billion years of the evolution of life on this planet, one species (us) had developed the talent and the temerity to seize control of its own genetic future.
  — Walter Isaacson, WSJ, 19 Feb. 2021
• Now Johnson has the temerity to stand on the global stage and pretend to support Ukraine and abhor Russian interference.
  — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• The only bad writing that Rushdie sees comes from conservative sources who have the temerity to criticize Democratic idols.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 13 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024