be/make so bold
idiom
: to act or speak in a daring and confident way
He was/made so bold as to guarantee a victory.
Examples of be/make so bold in a Sentence
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Her work has always been and continues to be so bold.
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
But few students of propaganda and strategic communications would be so bold as to assume that a message sent is a message received.
—Paul Berman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010
Will no one be so bold as to drive across the lake?!
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
If someone is going to be so bold as to ask what is wrong with you, Miss Manners thinks a pithy answer is deserved.
—Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
One major question regarding the entire bizarre episode is why China would be so bold as to fly surveillance balloons over U.S. airspace.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
My sense, Jackie, is that everyone, including Lincoln Center, had to be so creative, had to be so bold, had to really think about ways to create things that would excite people, that would heal people, and that would bring people together and connect people.
—Jacqueline Adams, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2021
Only an academic who is totally ignorant of historic tensions and differences could be so bold as to place the Haratin, Israelis, Berbers, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Copts, and Arabs in the same cultural group.
—Aron Ravin, National Review, 5 July 2021
Antonio wouldn't be so bold, but Twelve Minutes is certainly a part of this new phase of creative experimentation in gaming.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 June 2021
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
But few students of propaganda and strategic communications would be so bold as to assume that a message sent is a message received.
—Paul Berman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010
Will no one be so bold as to drive across the lake?!
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
If someone is going to be so bold as to ask what is wrong with you, Miss Manners thinks a pithy answer is deserved.
—Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
One major question regarding the entire bizarre episode is why China would be so bold as to fly surveillance balloons over U.S. airspace.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
My sense, Jackie, is that everyone, including Lincoln Center, had to be so creative, had to be so bold, had to really think about ways to create things that would excite people, that would heal people, and that would bring people together and connect people.
—Jacqueline Adams, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2021
Only an academic who is totally ignorant of historic tensions and differences could be so bold as to place the Haratin, Israelis, Berbers, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Copts, and Arabs in the same cultural group.
—Aron Ravin, National Review, 5 July 2021
Antonio wouldn't be so bold, but Twelve Minutes is certainly a part of this new phase of creative experimentation in gaming.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 June 2021
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“Be/make so bold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be%2Fmake%20so%20bold. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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