How to Use audacious in a Sentence

audacious

adjective
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  • Scorsese playing the part himself was one of the more audacious things in the film.
    — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Wolf’s audacious, hilariously filthy lyrics only added to the head-spinning chaos.
    — Jordan Bassett, SPIN, 12 July 2024
  • Beyoncé has so many audacious culture-clash triumphs all over Cowboy Carter.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But now, less than two years later, Luckin Coffee is attempting one of the most audacious turnarounds in corporate history.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 22 May 2022
  • Maryland still has ingrained in statute the big, hairy, audacious goal of dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions to repair the planet.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
  • For a few hours on March 16, the audacious plan seemed to work.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2016
  • The show is both about corn, and corny in an audacious way.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • So, in an audacious move for the early 1990s, Clarke joined the boys’ team.
    — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • The three-hour odyssey, defined by great stillness, is one of the most audacious films of the year.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 11 July 2024
  • Avengers: Endgame was the most audacious Marvel project of all time.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This is the kind of audacious big swing too scarce in our era of low risks at high budgets.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Aces point guard Chelsea Gray, with her audacious passing, was the fulcrum of it all.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • To achieve your big, hairy, audacious goal is a giant leap that needs to start with a small step.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • One of the most audacious plans to come about recently hopes to put forests on Mars.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, Huneeus moved on to the other, more audacious part of Singer’s scheme.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • And some graduate to more audacious crimes; like the Big Maple Leaf theft.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There’s something audacious about a Black girl who dares to dream.
    — Abby Haglage, refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
  • The goal was true to character: big, hairy and audacious.
    — Manuela Tobias, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The messages were a measure of the confidence in that audacious plan.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The cropped-length feels fresh, stylish, practical, groomed and a little bit audacious all at the same time.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2023
  • So the thing to watch right now is whether Trump’s legal team takes the audacious step of filing such a request in the Supreme Court.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 5 June 2024
  • This, of course, isn’t that audacious a strategic idea.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Here's an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the most audacious space project in decades...
    — Scientific American, 7 July 2022
  • This isn’t their first rodeo in the world of high-profile hacks, and their track record includes some bold, if not audacious, claims.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The vision is audacious and is being backed by some of the smartest programmers and tech investors in the world.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The movie is an audacious, self-scourging drama of a crisis of faith.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Back in his first campaign, Donald Trump had a pretty audacious idea to win the black vote.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2020
  • With the impending onset of spring comes a renaissance for one of the most audacious shades of pink.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But my big hairy audacious goal is to help a million students.
    — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • That marble floor in the entry is flat-out audacious — hello and wow!
    — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 13 Jan. 2014

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