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.
• But this audacity is about more than just grandiose press releases.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024
• Ritesh is gifted with not just an audacity to dream but comes with great ability to chase that dream and drive people to pursue excellence.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 18 Aug. 2019
• The audacity of this beauty to give us headwrap lust with just the right amount of height, the right amount of hair peeking from the bottom, and the right amount of joy in her face.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 1 Aug. 2019
• More than that, the players’ audacity coupled with their ability to back it up thrills, divides and fascinates us.
  — Jerry Brewer, The Denver Post, 4 July 2019
• More than that, the players' audacity coupled with their ability to back it up thrills, divides and fascinates us.
  — chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
• Above all, most criticism seems leveled at the Zimovs’ audacity.
  — Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• It’s been praised for its audacity to be really, really weird — something that black women usually don’t get to be.
  — Clarkisha Kent, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Our tolerance for cheaters, liars, and grifters has increased, and audacity is now prized as a much as actual accomplishment.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2019
• Lankford and Pratte, then 68, were stunned at Williams’ audacity.
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 19 July 2019
• There’s a moment about 15 minutes into the first episode of Years and Years that made me gasp at its audacity, its prescience, its visual horror.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 June 2019
• The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity, and the gumption.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
• The man has the audacity to lean in for a kiss, but Jenn gives him the cheek.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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 $1 million prize and the audacity of the challenge drew in all sorts of hopefuls.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
• What struck me [here] was the sheer audacity, the bold approach.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• The audacity of the play and height of his jump were equally as shocking.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The audacity of a nerdy, brown, ridiculous boy as the hero of his own story!
  — Glynn Washington, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• And in that case, the joke was really just the audacity of doing it.
  — Megh Wright, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2021
• The man got out of his truck, had the audacity to touch Ernesto’s body, then got back in his vehicle and drove away.
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 19 Oct. 2018
• The, the, the audacity of what was happening here makes this worth talking about.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2022
• The rest of the Spurs, meanwhile, could only sit back and admire the audacity of Johnson to try such a thing.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2021
• The bird, perhaps shocked at her audacity, turned and flew away.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The sheer audacity of this is mind-boggling and also distributing.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024