BOLD in a Sentence

Learn BOLD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

237 example sentences for BOLD, such as:

1. A cock is bold on his dunghill.
2. A bold attempt is half success.
3. The young man is a bold warrior.
4. She caught his likeness with a few bold brush strokes.
5. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOLD
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bold
 a.  brave; daring; intrepid; impudent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Turning she saw a tall handsome woman with a bold face and a mass of red hair, too red to be true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  It was the bold way his eyes looked out of his swarthy face with a displeasing air of insolence, as if all women were his property to be enjoyed in his own good time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  It was a bold stroke and it would have cost the South dearly, except for Forrest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  His white teeth gleamed startlingly against his brown face and his bold eyes raked her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  The Welly Brys, after much debate, and anxious counsel with their newly acquired friends, had decided on the bold move of giving a general entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  She asserted that it proved him to be a man of the bold free West.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
9  The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
10  So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
11  Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
12  She looked bold and resourceful and unscrupulous, and she was all of these.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
13  He took all the dances Lena Lingard would give him, and even grew bold enough to walk home with her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
14  After I refused to join 'the Owls,' as they were called, I made a bold resolve to go to the Saturday night dances at Firemen's Hall.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
15  So Jurgis thought, and so he spoke, in his bold, free way; very much to his surprise, he found that it had a tendency to get him into trouble.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  The wine made him bold enough to approach her and introduce himself.
2  One student made so bold as to argue with the professor.
3  The head-words in this dictionary are printed in bold type.
4  The young man is a bold warrior.
5  It was a bold move on their part to open a branch of the business in France.
6  She caught his likeness with a few bold brush strokes.
7  No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
8  A bold attempt is half success.
9  A cock is bold on his dunghill.
10  In a bold promotional stunt for the movie, he smashed his car into a passing truck.
11  In a surprisingly bold move , he is threatening court action against the company.
12  The newspaper made the bold move/took the bold step of publishing the names of the men involved.
13  It was a bold stroke to reveal the identity of the murderer on the first page.
14  She wanted Phoebe's long bold stare, so different from Rachel's serene regard-more dangerous, more challenging.
15  Politicians tried to dress up the bill as a bold new strategy for combatting poverty.