AUDACITY in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for AUDACITY, such as:

1. The audacity of a fine death always affects men.
2. All the corps rivaled one another in audacity and gaiety.
3. A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin.
4. Her mouth fell open with horror at the audacity of his proposal.
5. I discerned he was now neither angry nor shocked at my audacity.

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 Meanings and Examples of AUDACITY
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audacity
 a.  daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesome; reckless daring
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Then she seized her bucket again; fear had lent her audacity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
2  A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
3  Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity of a spectre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY
4  Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the people by reason of their very audacity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
5  Creation where precaution is combined with audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
6  These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
7  The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
8  The audacity of a fine death always affects men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
9  de la Tremouille with a letter in which he begged of him to eject the cardinal's Guardsmen from his house, and to reprimand his people for their audacity in making SORTIE against the king's Musketeers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
10  All the corps rivaled one another in audacity and gaiety.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
11  Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
12  It was a characteristic speech, and sounded daring, but audacity becomes young people, and Amy's ambition had a good foundation.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
13  The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
14  I discerned he was now neither angry nor shocked at my audacity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  Her mouth fell open with horror at the audacity of his proposal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me.
2  The ignorant audacity to believe that I don't appreciate the life and death of what I kill is astounding.
3  Sky - diving takes both audacity and skill.