bravo

"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

So bravo to you for taking this on.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

"There was a lot of negativity about the Seine before the Olympics. At least they have tried; they have spent £1.2bn on this clean-up project so bravo to them for doing it," Pardoe said.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024

“Well, bravo you! How do people like you sleep at night? That is what I want to know.”

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

A chorus of laughter and bravoes greeted his feat.

From The Missioner by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Griso, having received ample and minute instructions, took his departure, accompanied by the two bravoes; cursing in his heart the whims of his master.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

These famous men, the flower of the bravoes of Italy, these men without pity or fear, to see them in flesh and blood,—to meet them at every step!

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

When he returned to the kitchen, and was employed in taking the polpette from the fire, one of the bravoes approached, and said, in an under tone, “Who are those men?”

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016

Rachel Moore is drawing bravos in Los Angeles, where she's headed to lead its downtown Music Center after 11 years as executive director of New York City-based American Ballet Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2015

And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

There were bravos and, from the many young people I saw around me, shouts and hoots for Ms. Weilerstein and the composer.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2014

Dying bravos oft found their way to the House of Black and White, to hasten their ends, but this man had no wounds that she could find.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

At the end of the piece, the audience bravoed noisily.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores.

From Time Magazine Archive

Onetime Hero Coste, bravoed in Manhattan as a counterspy in 1945, was now arrested in France as a wartime spy for Germany and a collaborator since 1940.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And my Sunbeam was bravoed, and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?"

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes

Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous