pizzazz

Example Sentences

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He paid a high price for his lack of pizzazz when he ran for president in 2002.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

The early scenes have a certain ponderous solemnity as two hunter-warrior-predator brothers from the Yautja race fight for honor with weapons that combine the clank of all things medieval with modern pizzazz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Costume designer Paula Bradley drapes Kardashian and her co-stars in a range of expensive fabrics, occasionally burying them in a dead animal or Muppet skin to add pizzazz.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

That leaves a lot of room for hyperactive joy and community-building iconography, which both Harris and Tim Walz have been able to play into with pizzazz and panache, as my colleague Scott Nover notes.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2024

“Why not a cat? An animal with some panache? Some pizzazz? Some dignity?”

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate