audacity

Example Sentences

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“You had the audacity to do your job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

She was made to feel like a "terrible person" for "having the audacity to complain", she added.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Harry Brook's dance, swipe and miss at Mitchell Starc from his first ball seemed witless in the moment, yet it was Brook's audacity that kept England from a complete implosion.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

No one has the audacity to try to unseat him, or even to say that he won’t be in charge forever.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

Erysichthon had the wicked audacity to cut down the tallest oak in a grove sacred to Ceres.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton