How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun

• His stories are always told with bravado.
• I remember his youthful bravado.
• 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
• Dellinger sees through the bravado, prompting Wolsey and his men to ride off in a huff.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
• 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
• But here’s hoping this false sense of bravado doesn’t come back to haunt him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
• Jain didn’t barge onto the scene with the pompous bravado as many others do.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• The bravado of fashionista fury on draft night in 2019 is all grown up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The players project hearty bravado at the prospect of moving from the rear of the stage to the front-and-center position.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• In the famous episode, Fonzie donned a pair of water skis and jumped over a shark in a display of bravado.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• Lindsay talk to us about that than this fake bravado about how great her life is.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 May 2025
• Their voices carry a tone of bravado and voyeurism in their pursuits for close proximity.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
• But that bravado can only last so long.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
• Rockies fans might be surprised by the spring bravado.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
• That bravado has given away to this woman who actually really wants to be very good at her job.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• There’s a lot that’s familiar in this version, but enough variety, panache and bravado to raise it up a notch and give it, well, a raison d’être.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026