How to Use brash in a Sentence

brash

1 of 2 adjective
  • She asks such brash questions.
  • That would be bold and brash and jaw-dropping.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 May 2026
  • The kids were more brash and loud-mouthed and just more Aussie.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The coolest music can be the busiest and brashest.
    — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
  • So many directors come off as brash.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • All my coaches growing up were brash.
    — Latroy Hawkins, New York Times, 4 June 2026
  • The world’s richest man has long been known for his brash, shoot-from-the hip style.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Maybe someone who was equally brash like that would not be very much liked.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • York is confident, but not brash.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Bangerz did have more to offer, but nothing brash enough to drown out the noise around it.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2023
  • The brash Vesuvian sounds of golden-era rap had us by the brain stem.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • Debate is supposed to be a gaudy, brash show, a game of big winners and big losers.
    — Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Casey was known as a tough, brash politico who often clashed with the city’s business elite.
    — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The sedan is a brash bet that the two old-guard brands can succeed where others have struggled.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Others favor more brash and distressed looks.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
  • What most of these quarterbacks have in common is their brash approach to the game.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • That’s the beauty of being young and brash and not caring what others think.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • The Gritti is plush but never brash, and its clientele tends to match.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Today’s Ferraris may be big and brash, but that wasn’t always the case.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a brash top-down directive that has taken hold of businesses.
    — Cerys Goodall, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • While some were turned off by his tendency to be the loudest person in the room, others saw it as brash magnetism.
    — James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In his prime, Turner was one of the kings of broadcasting, a brash but savvy visionary.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 6 May 2026
  • The Oscar winner hasn’t been this bold and brash since Training Day.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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 title track on Your Favorite Toy is brash and snarky and full of fuzzy vocals.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The sketches were clever, brash, progressive, and sometimes simply dumb.
    — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Sharon has a brash personality, a grating voice, and is very self-centered.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Allanté roadster has always seemed too posh to be a sports car but too brash to be a luxury cruiser.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 30 Dec. 2022

brash

2 of 2 noun
  • Anyway, no matter what happens this fall, fans love this sort of brash talk.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The show was less a brash return than a tentative first step, writes Swed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2021
  • This is the bold, brash and berserk new world of major college athletics.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • Don’t overpower a delicate fish with a brash sauce and heavy grains.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Amid all this, Palmer’s brash Emerald swaggers through the film.
    — New York Times, 22 July 2022
  • In the anime, Faye is a brash and skilled bounty hunter searching for her past.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The central scherzo dances in brash, jazzy rhythms, with a spooky middle section.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The lights above were a brash fluorescent, the worst kind for a person with a brain injury.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Lynch, a brilliant filmmaker in his own right, plays the craggy auteur as loud and brash.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Stryker, brash and fearless, blames his father for the tragic loss of their mother.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 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
  • Nobile’s talents as an airship pilot were in part due to his brash self-confidence.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Watson brash, sort of firing on all cylinders, chaotic to a certain extent.
    — Deborah Unger, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2025
  • To those who’ve known Abel the longest, this sort of brash assertion hardly comes as a surprise.
    — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 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
  • This is a bold, brash and borderline beautiful whiskey, but perhaps the cask finish has gone just a tad overboard.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
  • 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 brash language is not unusual for Duterte, a tough-talking populist who is most known for a bloody war on drugs that has left thousands dead.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 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
  • Elvis, in the epic tradition of all of Luhrmann’s work, is a brash, overwhelming experience.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 June 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
  • For an offensive play-caller, this was as brash a move as Stephen Curry shimmying with the ball still in mid-air.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Gaetz, the brash Republican, liked to discuss politics, said one of the women.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Even now, Williams faces backlash for being brash or outspoken or angry in ways that Brady, as a white man, never will.
    — Photo: William West/afp/getty Images., refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The obituaries focused on his Windy City projects and brash Gotham skyscrapers.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021

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