in-your-face
adjective
: characterized by or expressive of bold and often defiant aggressiveness
in-your-face basketball
also
: aggressively intrusive
in-your-face advertising
Examples of in-your-face in a Sentence
an in-your-face attitude that sometimes puts people off
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Twentieth-century historians tended to paint the senator as an ineffectual hothead, but Tameez maintains that Sumner’s in-your-face style helped shock a complacent nation into action.
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Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
The two teams come into this year’s Stanley Cup Final (Game 1, Tuesday, 8 pm, ABC) with vastly different personas and styles, the Canes with their in-your-face man system and the Knights’ zone system that relies heavily on its centers.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
Embree was never an in-your-face taskmaster.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 7 May 2026
The revamp removes the in-your-face articles and replaces the Widget board with a more minimalist, white-space approach.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
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Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
The two teams come into this year’s Stanley Cup Final (Game 1, Tuesday, 8 pm, ABC) with vastly different personas and styles, the Canes with their in-your-face man system and the Knights’ zone system that relies heavily on its centers.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
Embree was never an in-your-face taskmaster.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 7 May 2026
The revamp removes the in-your-face articles and replaces the Widget board with a more minimalist, white-space approach.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for in-your-face
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“In-your-face.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-your-face. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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