How to Use audacity in a Sentence

audacity

noun

• He had the audacity to suggest that it was all my fault.
• I could not believe their audacity.
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• The audacity displayed by the avalanche of moves has made the Padres the talk of baseball.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• That is the cost of coming to see a work that has the audacity to put the word slave in its title.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• The audacity of the play and height of his jump were equally as shocking.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• But also be thrilled by the gall of Eve to do that; like the audacity of it thrills her.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• What struck me [here] was the sheer audacity, the bold approach.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• The audacity of a nerdy, brown, ridiculous boy as the hero of his own story!
  — Glynn Washington, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• The house itself had a heft and audacity that was striking.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• And in that case, the joke was really just the audacity of doing it.
  — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
• And then one person had the audacity to call the police on me within earshot.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• For those with the audacity to swipe while awaiting their shots, well, good luck to you.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• The audacity of art, the boldness that went into the book itself, is nowhere to be found.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
• The bird, perhaps shocked at her audacity, turned and flew away.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The, the, the audacity of what was happening here makes this worth talking about.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• Yet the airlines have the audacity to turn in hundreds of pages of ways to make their lives easier.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2018
• Still others may be caught up in the very audacity that stirs a person to become a writer in the first place.
  — Paul Elie, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2017
• The $1 million prize and the audacity of the challenge drew in all sorts of hopefuls.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
• Lin had the audacity, like you, to make that my first dialogue scene.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The audacity of looking for jobs while at your current job!
  — The Cut, 8 Apr. 2018
• Many are a century old and still thrilling in their audacity.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• How does anyone have the audacity to claim their socks can be worn concern-free for days on end?
  — Luke Winkie, Vox, 5 Aug. 2019
• People who, on a warm and rainy June morning, had the audacity to think the trains might run on time.
  — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
• Sometimes, the stylist has to audacity to charge you extra because your hair is long.
  — Ariel Nagi, Seventeen, 24 July 2015
• Award shows had the audacity to place them in the foreign film category.
  — Sherry Cola, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• This is a film with the audacity to turn the color of a puppet’s pubic hair into a pivotal plot point.
  — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
• Here are the best whodunnit twists, ranked by audacity and artistry.
  — Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
• Because at the core of his performance was a claim of boggling audacity: that these were not tricks.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Had his agent asked for one, the Sixers would have snickered at the audacity of such a request.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 19 June 2018

Last Updated: 25 Apr 2024