How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun
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  • He is softly spoken, unassuming and doesn’t come with the usual bravado which is prevalent in a sport full of egos.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 17 June 2024
  • Roosevelt managed to make his speech and, in a bit of bravado, used his bloodied shirt and tattered speech as a symbol of his resilience.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • It has been reclaimed by some as a marker of empowerment and by others as a critical satire of male bravado and tawdry, art-world branding.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Despite that tween bravado, Jasmin Smith said her children take time after each game to reflect on their moves and analyze their games.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2021
  • His underlying motive runs deeper than just bravado and superlatives.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 July 2021
  • Is the bacon tastier seasoned with the false bravado of the Southeastern Conference?
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • For all his cocksure bravado, Baxter seems untainted by the cynicism and mordancy of the weary veterans around him.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Feldstein captures the reckless bravado of a young adult both emboldened by and crushed under the weight of an overwhelming infatuation.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Orgeron’s bravado has endeared him to many while alienating others, including Witzling.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Li is one of dozens of Chinese diplomats who have found a home on Twitter in recent years, taking to the site with Trumpian bravado to raise their profiles at home and abroad.
    — Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 10 July 2021
  • Meeting criticism with defiance and bravado arguably worked for Trump, who is cruising to the nomination and remaking the party in his own image.
    — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • The #dogefamily, as many of its members call it, has a bubblier feel than the aspirational-alpha-male bravado that surrounds some other headline-grabbing web forums.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For all of its bravado about changing the world, the tech industry is very much a man's world.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 24 June 2017
  • Mario is also a man with boundless bravado and a man with flaws.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2017

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