How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun

• His stories are always told with bravado.
• I remember his youthful bravado.
• And yet, despite the bravado, Nims appears capable of pulling off the whole caper.
  — National Geographic, 24 May 2019
• The right chairman is someone who can balance the bravado with the cold, hard truth that Elon Musk can’t save the world alone.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
• But behind the showman’s bravado is a connoisseur of design’s leading lights.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2019
• His personality, full of bravado and swagger, should play well with New York, too.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2019
• In a lot of cases that is a coach, because they are trained to have that bravado, that leadership, that salesman experience.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• However, rather than bravado, something more contemplative comes through in Pecou’s image.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
• If anything, despite my initial bravado about sharing my story with the masses, the weeks leading up to my episode’s release were filled with doubt and apprehension.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• The Warriors’ locker room, usually full of chatter, joy, bravado and swagger, was funereal.
  — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• Follow in the footsteps of gladiators at the Roman Colosseum, then test your bravado at a gladiator school.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Despite the braying and bravado, however, Trump is perhaps in the worst position of any incumbent president in recent history.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
• The life had not seeped out of them, but the bravado had.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• Fink no longer talks about the issue with the bravado of a change agent.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• Kendall is the show’s dark prince, a would-be mogul puffed up with false bravado.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
• While that may seem like bravado, that came to fruition.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
• This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
• The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In one, a girl stands in the kitchen of a Bronx shelter, her arm twisted in the air with the bravado of a dancer.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• At the last minute, with a bit of bravado, the BofA lawyer does a modest re-trade.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
• On the other hand, all this bravado from the Trump campaign is baloney.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And, such a carefree ethos and burn-it-down bravado played out behind the scenes, too.
  — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• These mice will march right up to a cat, the very picture of foolish bravado.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Texas is a big state known for its bravado, some earned and some fiction.
  — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
• His anger was sudden, his bravado clearly a show for the Creef boy.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• This is a brazen Grizzlies bunch that oozes Morant’s bravado.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
• Gabriel said all of the right things afterward, but added his own twist of bravado.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• False bravado only works when there is a modicum of truth to it.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• Despite their bravado and machismo, these young men have dreams, intelligence, humor and side hustles.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
• Still, that near-career-ending episode levied a heavy tax on Griffin’s seemingly unshakable bravado.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024