Example sentences for: chutzpah

How can you use “chutzpah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the verb kvell , which exactly expresses that emotion, is already (like other Yiddish loanwords, such as chutzpah, meshugga and nosh ) to be found in the Supplement to the Oxford-English Dictionary .

  • And he hired other people, including top Italian masters, to blow more glass than he could alone--enough to make him the Christo of glass, decking Northwest streams and (you've gotta admire the chutzpah) Venetian canals with bright globes and tubes.

  • Like Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and Jack Warner--the eastern European Jews who invented Hollywood--the Weinsteins are chutzpah personified, imperious and megalomaniac.

  • The stories she tells about Luce's magazine career make up a kind of profile in chutzpah, and are particularly fun to read.

  • The NYT observes that it remains to be seen if the "new, customer-friendly IRS has the chutzpah to try to collect the tax from, say, a twelve-year-old baseball fan."


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