have the audacity

Example Sentences

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“You have to have confidence, you have to have the audacity to believe that you are going to do Hamlet — and that you can do Hamlet,” O’Hara says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

“They have the audacity to to take their children out of a government school and put them into a better program,” Heap said.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2023

There are those who have the audacity to compare him to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2023

Some said her look was "so bad that it's actually camp" while others asked, "How dare Katie Holmes have the audacity to try to bring back" the outdated dress-over-jeans trend.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022

Autumn and Ama stare at me, as if they can’t believe that I have the audacity to rock their worlds one more time.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer