audacity

Example Sentences

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The aim remains to convince potential adversaries that "if they have the audacity to attack France... there will be an unsustainable price to be paid," the president said.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

"She was incensed, just really struck by the audacity of stealing a building and flippantly said: 'You should make this into a game'," Myres told the BBC.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

“You had the audacity to do your job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

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

When I was a first year, I’d seen her make a cocky fifth year mop the entire mess hall because he had the audacity to start a food fight.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin