Example sentences for: temerity

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

  • Second-day stories in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times let the Hollywood establishment lash out at Miramax capo Harvey Weinstein, who had the temerity to take the Best Picture Oscar away from Steven Spielberg.

  • folks (Universal) made several years ago when a gay nonprofit anti-violence group had the temerity to call itself 'Pink Panthers' (although in this drunk-on-synergy era Universal probably owns all of Jay Ward's output as well)."

  • Lord Voldemort (whose name is never uttered by wizards with less temerity than Harry and Dumbledore) is, like Darth Vader or Milton's Satan, a classic rebel angel, undone by his lust for power.

  • She also had the temerity to state that at 49 the list was close to a close.

  • The broader reason is that Brill has had the temerity to breach the inky wall of silence that largely protects reporters from being subject to the same rules of exposure they expect everyone else to live by.


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