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Example sentences for "bravado"

Lexicographically close words:
brauery; braunche; braunches; braux; brava; brave; braved; bravely; braver; braveries
  1. I can't tell Scriabin from Strauss half the time.

  2. But you'll have to tell me some more about what you have in mind.

  3. There was a lot less bravado and swagger.

  4. That synthetic bravado was left over from his trader days: You're the luckiest person alive, just to have reached me.

  5. Now the once-breezy Kristen Starr was staring at her with angry eyes, the false bravado of a frightened child.

  6. Mercifully, he didn't come up with false bravado about revolutionary treatments and you never can tell, blah, blah, blah.

  7. With an exclamation of boyish glee he plumped himself down upon the hard planks of the bench, and jumped up again, pirouetting on his toe and slanting his hat over one eye as if in a spirit of sheer bravado against fate.

  8. She posed as naturally and as easily as if she had done nothing else all her life, and with a certain bravado and swing that enchanted everybody in the room.

  9. Not a bit," I answered, with bravado "Then you have no heart.

  10. All right, I'll see you some other time," I said, with an air of bravado She ran after me.

  11. With the arrogant bravado of an impulsive boy challenged to action, he began his arch first.

  12. Dantin saluted the Magistrate with a gesture which, though courteous, seemed to have a little bravado in it; as a salutation with a sword before a duel.

  13. When I was arrested, a sort of foolish bravado urged me to see how far the absurdity of the charge could accumulate against me seeming proofs.

  14. His look of bravado seemed to say: "Do you dare?

  15. The bravado of the words temporarily gave him more spirit; yet there was nothing he could do but go to bed.

  16. Havana was like a, stage on which Savina--with a considered bravado they had kept the Randon--tried with intoxicating success a part she had long and secretly desired.

  17. Sometimes they lost trace of him, but Moffatt could never refrain from trifling displays of bravado which betrayed his identity everywhere he moved, so that Johnson was able to pick up his tracks without much loss of time.

  18. Lafe began to assume a hint of bravado in his bearing and was evidently flattered that he could attract a woman of Mrs. Vining's world.

  19. The armistice makes for temporary peace, but has a decided tendency to be irksome to citizens who would be nonpartisan, and it usually ends by a casual trespass, or one of intent, prompted by bravado or rye.

  20. Even his hardy bravado and indomitable will gave way before the picture that now came into his mind.

  21. Just watch me," he said at last, a certain bravado accompanying his words.

  22. Certainly she had more good will than confidence toward the world, and the bravado of her smile could not conceal the shadow of an unrest that was almost discontent.

  23. The two poet-swimmers received a bravado challenge from 'Orion' Horne, who was also a famous swimmer, to swim with him round the whole island of Sark!

  24. As about two hundred rounds were fired, and yet three of the seals got away, their bravado was partially excusable.

  25. But Sawkins's bravado never came to anything, and he was shortly afterwards killed at Puebla Nueva.

  26. This was no other than Colonel Grant, the same shallow soldier who, exceeding his instructions, had been guilty of a foolhardy bravado before the walls of Fort Duquesne, which brought slaughter and defeat upon his troops.

  27. His whole object seems to have been by open bravado to provoke an action.

  28. The excitement and bravado and uncertainty of that long day and night seemed all at once to tell upon her.

  29. To this partisan bravado the third judge replied with a dignified rebuke; in his dissenting opinion he said: [Sidenote] Gamble, J.

  30. Lincoln entered upon the task which his party friends had devised with neither bravado nor misgiving.

  31. Out from under their fierce, truculent bravado showed the fiercer hunger for common things and comforts.

  32. They were the bubbly type, full of bravado and giggles for their strange, new surroundings.

  33. With the bravado born of her new grip on life she brazenly descended on the "beastly Aunt Jen" and demanded and received her trunks and personal trinkets.

  34. Uncle Peter's head dropped pitifully, his bravado ceased abruptly, he became a whining child.

  35. Maurice, to whom nothing was more offensive than the tone of bravado in which she flaunted subjects of this nature, was stung to retaliation.

  36. He called every day at the hospital; out of sheer bravado at first, furious at the public opinion that would have him go his way and ignore a human being alone and suffering, even when his motives were pure.

  37. But, as soon as he was gone, conjecturing from the bravado of his manner what had really occurred, Mrs. Crane put on her bonnet and went out.

  38. The traitor entered with a more than customary bravado of manner, as if he apprehended a scolding, and was prepared to face it; but Mrs. Crane neither reproached him for his prolonged absence, nor expressed surprise at his return.

  39. At times his waspishness and bravado palled even on me.

  40. Of all characters in fiction he perhaps most suggests Jack Falstaff, with his love of women, his bravado and bluster and his innate good nature and sympathy.

  41. Vanity and bravado were the secrets of the particular mess Antony made--always terrified lest people should find out how weak and hesitating he really was, and so covering up his tracks with Heaven knows what further stupidities!

  42. Dashing enough, but always at the wrong moments--because he was weak inside, he had no heart for the things he did, but was somehow compelled to do them by bravado and helpless desperation.

  43. Let me do justice to a brave man's memory; in all these needless exposures of life there was no visible bravado nor subsequent narration.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bravado" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrogance; audacity; balls; bluff; bluster; boast; bombast; brag; bragging; bravado; bravura; bustle; conceit; contempt; daring; defiance; despite; disdain; disregard; enterprise; flurry; fluster; fuss; heroics; impertinence; impudence; insolence; intimidation; jactitation; pertness; rant; rodomontade; side; splutter; sputter; swagger; vanity; vaunt