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.
  • The show is both about corn, and corny in an audacious way.
    Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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 messages were a measure of the confidence in that audacious plan.
    Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The goal was true to character: big, hairy and audacious.
    Manuela Tobias, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But my big hairy audacious goal is to help a million students.
    Diana Tsai, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • This, of course, isn’t that audacious a strategic idea.
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The movie is an audacious, self-scourging drama of a crisis of faith.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
  • There’s something audacious about a Black girl who dares to dream.
    Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
  • Avengers: Endgame was the most audacious Marvel project of all time.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022
  • And the agency is already engaged in the most audacious project in its history.
    Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
  • That marble floor in the entry is flat-out audacious — hello and wow!
    Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 13 Jan. 2014
  • The time might not be right to make an audacious decision or gamble with resources.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Would that give you the freedom to try new things, without attachment to that big hairy audacious goal?
    Chris Westfall, Forbes, 20 Jan. 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 triggered the audacious idea to include a caviar extract in a skincare treatment.
    Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Sep. 2021
  • For a few hours on March 16, the audacious plan seemed to work.
    Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
  • Here's an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the most audacious space project in decades...
    Scientific American, 7 July 2022
  • The long-term goals are audacious for a country that is the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide.
    Chong Koh Ping, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The Anom takeover was an audacious bit of intelligence work.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 11 June 2021
  • Recall that there was a time when this seemed like an audacious, even arrogant, goal.
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Somebody is going to come out of this thing with an audacious claim full of fresh ammunition.
    Greg Cote, miamiherald, 27 May 2017
  • 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

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