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.
• There is still fun to be had in an audacious picture such as this.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• But my big hairy audacious goal is to help a million students.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• In the end, the story here is audacious enough to carry the show.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
• That might have been an audacious move in a film less strident and more subtle.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
• For a few hours on March 16, the audacious plan seemed to work.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
• Even with that effort, such an audacious goal was far from assured.
  — Paul Edward Parker, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• The audacious gameplay brings out the best in the other queens, too.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 May 2025
• For most of her life, speaking about what her parents had done seemed audacious.
  — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
• There’s something audacious about a Black girl who dares to dream.
  — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• The plan was simple, if audacious.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
• The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
• One of the most audacious plans to come about recently hopes to put forests on Mars.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Dec. 2022
• This may sound audacious—an act of hubris undertaken for its own sake.
  — Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
• The skirt featured organic black and white stripes for an audacious dose of print.
  — Meg Walters, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
• The movie is an audacious, self-scourging drama of a crisis of faith.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
• That marble floor in the entry is flat-out audacious — hello and wow!
  — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 13 Jan. 2014
• But still, this year, the Catalan set himself an even more audacious task.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
• This backbreaker wasn’t as audacious as the last.
  — Sam Amick, New York Times, 25 May 2026
• Pendragon is us at our most audacious.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
• Musk’s grants seem to be audacious and difficult-to-achieve by design.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 6 June 2026
• The structure was the tallest in the world at the time, making Duchamp’s plan all the more audacious.
  — Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• Shah is keeping watch on the next 18-24 months for the most audacious ideas.
  — Martine Paris, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• 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
• This was pretty audacious, even by the Dodgers’ standard.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Would that give you the freedom to try new things, without attachment to that big hairy audacious goal?
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022