How to Use brash in a Sentence

brash

1 of 2 adjective
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  • She asks such brash questions.
  • The kids were more brash and loud-mouthed and just more Aussie.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The world’s richest man has long been known for his brash, shoot-from-the hip style.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • The brash Vesuvian sounds of golden-era rap had us by the brain stem.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • Of the four, the Prologue is the most restrained in its design compared to the bold and brash Blazer.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Bangerz did have more to offer, but nothing brash enough to drown out the noise around it.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2023
  • With the Knicks into the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 10 years, their fans are back and as brash as ever.
    — Brian Mahoney, ajc, 28 Apr. 2023
  • What most of these quarterbacks have in common is their brash approach to the game.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Casey was known as a tough, brash politico who often clashed with the city’s business elite.
    — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe someone who was equally brash like that would not be very much liked.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • March 21 marks the start of Aries season—a time for being bold, brash, and passionate.
    — Kerensa Cadenas, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Apr. 2023
  • His co-star, who plays Lady Macbeth, was even more brash.
    — John Carucci, ajc, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The brash and propulsive pop punk the band engineered and perfected in the mid-nineties is omnipresent now.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Jasper, with his greasy long hair and scuzzy mug and brash instincts, is the veteran too smart to fool, the fly in every ointment.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The loud and brash content was aimed at the older siblings of the Disney Channel audience.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • At 78, Howard Jamison Jr. — once a fit, brash, proud and powerful Black man — had withered down to a shell of himself.
    — Angela Jamison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The brash real estate scion is among the many high-profile bidders for a casino complex in New York City.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • This week has become so big and brash that the Super Bowl itself feels forgotten.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The director has always been bold and brash with music in his films, and Elvis is no exception.
    — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 22 June 2022
  • This piercing blue-green hue is both brash and beautiful.
    — Jacob Kurowicki, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2023
  • On the red carpet, Taika Waititi went for a brash pinstripe suit.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Rachel Sennott, who played the hurricane at the center of Shiva Baby and co-wrote this new movie, is the brash, horny cutup.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Levant also said a lot of rude, brash, outlandish things for just for laughs, often with whipcrack timing.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Throughout the years, Ye has been known for his bold, brash personality.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The Fabs were confident—and typically brash— about their new sound.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • However, the Italians took kindly to this brash new upstart of a timepiece, and by 1994, there was a shortage in that market.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
  • The central New York novel of the 1980s, capturing the zeitgeist of that moment unlike anything else: glamorous, brash, over the top.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • Like so many of the finer things in Drizzy’s life, his new off-roader is big, brash and guaranteed to annoy a lot of people online.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That happened to be the year a skinny, brash lefthanded hitter named Williams joined the Red Sox, which guaranteed the streak would run until 1960.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • So, to keep my ears sharp, that means occasionally resetting my brain with the loudest, brashest music in the canon, for better or worse.
    — Nate Rogers, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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brash

2 of 2 noun
  • Amid all this, Palmer’s brash Emerald swaggers through the film.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • The show was less a brash return than a tentative first step, writes Swed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2021
  • In the anime, Faye is a brash and skilled bounty hunter searching for her past.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Young, bearded, brash, and fluent in memes, 39-year-old Bukele always had the physique du role to cater to the laser-eye brigade.
    — Wired, 30 June 2021
  • The lights above were a brash fluorescent, the worst kind for a person with a brain injury.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • On a recent night at the Comedy Chateau, the brash blond is the first to flaunt her identity, flaws and all, in front of a crowd.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Williams was the brash, upstart player — hyper alert and ready to make his mark, even as a rookie.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • As street trees mature, and the storefronts fill, the brash newcomer will settle in.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Their voices are music in the midst of hatred’s tinny sound, its harsh, brash words, threats of jail time and felony charges.
    — Rev. Brenda Walker, al, 7 Aug. 2022
  • This is the bold, brash and berserk new world of major college athletics.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • The central scherzo dances in brash, jazzy rhythms, with a spooky middle section.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Smalley and Bogues hoped to cut through Charles’s brash ego and get to know his more sensitive side.
    — Timothy Bella, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Anyway, no matter what happens this fall, fans love this sort of brash talk.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Ramps are found in a small part of northeastern India, says Shetty, who likes the brash, garlic-onion notes of the wild leeks.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • To those who’ve known Abel the longest, this sort of brash assertion hardly comes as a surprise.
    — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The fan got their bearings, and Nasty dove right back into her brash and bawdy performance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
  • And yet, the brash billionaire and the storied space agency have now linked their futures to each other.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • Naturally, the brass has issues with his brash ways and our man will get called to carpet a lot.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2022
  • Don’t overpower a delicate fish with a brash sauce and heavy grains.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Lynch, a brilliant filmmaker in his own right, plays the craggy auteur as loud and brash.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Or when Missy Elliott burst onto the hip-hop scene in 1997, the year that Hilton Als captured her brash, stagestruck ascent?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Stryker, brash and fearless, blames his father for the tragic loss of their mother.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The brash, bawdy owner, Doña Tella, turned out dishes enriched by the seafood pulled in by the fishermen who live along the water's edge.
    — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The obituaries focused on his Windy City projects and brash Gotham skyscrapers.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Pearl is loud, brash and really, really fun to be around.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 28 Nov. 2022
  • But losing the trial would be a high-profile chastisement of the CEO’s brash leadership style.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • Rand wants to continue their journey to the White Tower, while a brash and surly Mat wishes to return home to his sisters.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Gaetz, the brash Republican, liked to discuss politics, said one of the women.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Even a college lecture of this kind has to be a blockbuster, the movie tells us; this is the world these people are in, brash and vibrant, supersized, where everything is an Event.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2022

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