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.
• My phone has the audacity to text me when news has happened, which is so bold.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
• The man has the audacity to lean in for a kiss, but Jenn gives him the cheek.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 July 2024
• My goodness, was there a sale at the audacity store?
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
• For those with the audacity to swipe while awaiting their shots, well, good luck to you.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• The bird, perhaps shocked at her audacity, turned and flew away.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• What struck me [here] was the sheer audacity, the bold approach.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• George, caught off guard by the audacity, lunged to contest.
  — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
• The audacity of the play and height of his jump were equally as shocking.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Far more are coming in with a sense of audacity and agency.
  — Harvard Business Review, 30 Dec. 2025
• The audacity of a nerdy, brown, ridiculous boy as the hero of his own story!
  — Glynn Washington, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Lin had the audacity, like you, to make that my first dialogue scene.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• But the audacity of stopping the movie — for nine minutes — to have that scene!
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 20 May 2025
• 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
• Nobody was lamenting his lack of audacity on the base paths.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
• Friends reacted in shock to the audacity of the man.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• And then one person had the audacity to call the police on me within earshot.
  — Jason Bittel, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• But the increase has not been fueled by the audacity of a few elite sprinters.
  — Chad Jennings, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• And in that case, the joke was really just the audacity of doing it.
  — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 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 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
• The, the, the audacity of what was happening here makes this worth talking about.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• Part of its audacity came from the fact that it was never even intended as a feature.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2025
• 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
• 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