How to Use bravado in a Sentence

bravado

noun
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  • His stories are always told with bravado.
  • I remember his youthful bravado.
  • The life had not seeped out of them, but the bravado had.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Fink no longer talks about the issue with the bravado of a change agent.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • False bravado only works when there is a modicum of truth to it.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
  • Kendall is the show’s dark prince, a would-be mogul puffed up with false bravado.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
  • These mice will march right up to a cat, the very picture of foolish bravado.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Texas is a big state known for its bravado, some earned and some fiction.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Mario is also a man with boundless bravado and a man with flaws.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Gabriel said all of the right things afterward, but added his own twist of bravado.
    — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
  • On the other hand, all this bravado from the Trump campaign is baloney.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This was not the first time Biden has used some brio and bravado to talk about Trump.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The member seemed drawn to OG’s bravado and his skill with weapons.
    — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Catch your breath watching their bravado from a safe vantage point ashore.
    — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2020
  • For all of its bravado about changing the world, the tech industry is very much a man's world.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 24 June 2017
  • All this sets up a prime chance for Mason to back up his summer bravado.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017
  • People have tried to keep up the fun by outdoing themselves with jokes and bravado.
    — WIRED, 2 Dec. 2022
  • In stark contrast to the present day, where has that enthusiasm and bravado gone?
    — SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There is so much fear in the average black male growing up in a city that is covered up as bravado.
    — Emmanuel Felton, The Root, 24 Sep. 2017
  • And, such a carefree ethos and burn-it-down bravado played out behind the scenes, too.
    — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • The weight of the penalty, one year shy of completing his degree, broke his bravado.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • But beneath all the bravado, Trump still has fears just like anybody else.
    — Ben Schreckinger, GQ, 12 Jan. 2018
  • His anger was sudden, his bravado clearly a show for the Creef boy.
    — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The two leaders hit it off, and not just because of their legendary macho bravado.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Michigan has since regrouped and is even showing some bravado once again.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Yet beneath his bravado, Lewis was fighting to gain control of the ward.
    — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Hickey wants to know what life would be like if stripped of male bravado and self-deception.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • This is a brazen Grizzlies bunch that oozes Morant’s bravado.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes a coach with much to prove will stand up for his team, and his confidence will come across as false bravado.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 13 July 2017
  • Men who risk their health and well-being, on the other hand, prove their bravado for the respect of their peers.
    — Kristen Barber, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023

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