BRAVADO in a Sentence
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Example sentences for BRAVADO, such as:
1. There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
2. As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
3. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
4. She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
5. He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado.
2. As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
3. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
4. She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
5. He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado.
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Meanings and Examples of BRAVADO
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bravado
n. defiant or swaggering behavior; pretense of courage; false show of bravery
Classic Sentence:
1 She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.
2 He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
3 There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.
4 On the first day of his life as a strikebreaker Jurgis quit work early, and in a spirit of bravado he challenged three men of his acquaintance to go outside and get a drink.
5 Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6 The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty.
7 Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado.
Example Sentence:
1 The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
2 As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.