How to Use temerity in a Sentence

temerity

noun

• He was punished for his temerity.
• Martin and Agathe each have the temerity to want a life with the man.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2023
• As in men clutching theirs every time a female sports star has the temerity to act like one.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• No one in recent times has had the temerity or skill to save match points against the ironman of tennis.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Without the temerity to stand on his own, his pedigree is unlikely to be worth much.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
• And embolden them, and give them the temerity to go out in the wilderness and try to survive.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
• All who’ve had the temerity to speak up have risen to McConnell’s defense.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 11 Aug. 2017
• There were those with the temerity to vigorously disagree with me.
  — Judith Newman, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
• Should some lowlife have the temerity to steal your passport, the technology could help the police hunt it down.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• Mormonism also had the temerity to believe in prophets in the age of photographs.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• But despite being on the slight side, temerity has never been an issue for Locmelis.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
• The old man treated the unusually quiet girl with temerity, unsure how best to care for her.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
• Boselli had the temerity to claim the referees favored the Pats.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Gough even had the temerity to compare Black civil rights activists to the heads of organized crime.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• The hope is the children can help fight lingering vaccine temerity with a big dose of reality.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 12 May 2021
• In the beginning, many scoffed at the temerity of a peanut farmer and one-term governor running for the highest office in the land.
  — Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
• Herb Caen had the temerity to say first what only months before might have been considered delusional.
  — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2022
• Some even had the temerity to display diamond-blue skies in their Instas, tweets, and Facebook posts.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
• Point guard Kyle Lowry, in fact, noticed that, when first shown the postgame box score, laughing that Tucker had the temerity to take that many shots.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2021
• It must be hoped by the franchise and its fans that Lauer’s stuff does play at this level, because his temerity and temperament certainly do.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Earlier this season, a home plate umpire had the temerity to throw a bat to the on-deck circle, denying Finn his greatest pleasure in life.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Then came news Wednesday that in the days before his firing, Comey had the temerity to ask for more resources to aid the Russian probe.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 10 May 2017
• The Times was especially agitated that the boys’ fathers had had the temerity to go to federal court over this.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
• But Justice Samuel Alito had the temerity to point out the obvious.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• And Zelensky just hasn’t backed down, and Zelensky’s had the temerity to take him on, on a number of occasions, to push back.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• That tweet reflected the tone of much of their coverage, in which the onus for the problem was on those with the temerity to protest against a tyrannical regime, not on the forces of repression.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 7 Jan. 2018
• But the hottest topic in baseball was a 76-year-old manager fuming about a 28-year-old rookie having the temerity to hit a home run.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• For the second time this season, Gordon refused to give way when a Newcastle team-mate had the temerity to suggest someone else might have a go.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• The same person who had the temerity to call out others for rule-breaking now faces the NCAA’s wrath in a way few of his peers have or ever well.
  — Rainer Sabin, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Barbara Ridlon swung her car into the parking lot, leaped out, and raced headlong toward the man who was pounding his wife for having the temerity to defy him and buy a pair of shoes.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019