How to Use bold-faced in a Sentence

bold-faced

adjective
  • It’s long been a favorite with bold-faced stars and creatives.
    — Mark Ellwood, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-05-13
  • Usher joins a growing list of bold-faced names to pose for the shapewear brand.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 2024-02-05
  • Some of those bold-faced names turned out for the Hollywood premiere this year.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 2024-08-09
  • The bold-faced names backing the business was icing on the cake for Hunza.
    — Dahvi Shira, Forbes, 2024-12-19
  • The event’s knack for drawing bold-faced names has led some to think of it as a West Coast Met Gala.
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 2023-09-26
  • While the inaugural list had several bold-faced names around the league, this one has tried to highlight those who are up-and-coming.
    — Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 2024-08-21
  • Trainor is far from the only bold-faced name in the cosmetics brand’s Super Bowl ad teaser.
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 2024-01-30
  • Since opening last year it’s become a buzzy spot attracting locals and bold-faced names alike who linger on its patio sipping wines and nibbling on crudo.
    — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 2023-12-26
  • The country-hopping schedule would take him from yachts and parties to formal events and beach clubs, and the bold-faced name client needed the right threads to match the environments.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2025-05-16
  • The tales of their genesis constitute latter-day Greek myths whose gods have bold-faced names like Onassis and Niarchos.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 2024-02-14
  • Kyle and Kamilla doubled down on their ruse by whipping up a bold-faced lie: that Shauhin showed Kamilla an immunity idol that didn’t even exist!
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2025-05-15
  • All of the numbers carry a bold-faced asterisk for being either not fully reflective of tariff effects or helped temporarily by some pull-forward of demand to get ahead of tariffs.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2025-06-02
  • His 49-page motion — with bold-faced phrases and exclamation points — used pejoratives and hyperbole to describe former colleagues and their motives.
    — Robert Anglen, AZCentral.com, 2025-07-07
  • The strange juxtapositions continued in the nominations, which featured a grab-bag of bold-faced names making their first and only Oscar appearance: Shel Silverstein!
    — Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 2025-02-26
  • At its height in the 1960s, the resort town was a magnet for bold-faced names: The Agnellis owned a waterfront mansion here, and Sophia Loren was a fixture during the summer.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 2025-01-25
  • Writer-director Stephen Gaghan’s ensemble drama is in many ways a time capsule from 2005, down to its sprawling cast of bold-faced names and the era’s vogue for watching far-flung, seemingly disparate characters collide.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 2024-06-14

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