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How to use temerity in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word temerity? Here are some examples.

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And this Minister has the audacity and temerity to try to say that that is listening to the people.
And then she had the temerity to sit there in a press conference and argue between herself and yourself.
The bold realist whose candor, even temerity, was legendary turned out to have been hiding a secret.
Many at the environmental assessment meetings at least had the temerity to question the spending priorities of our governments.
He bitterly rebuked them for having the temerity to come crawling to him for a loan after publicly disdaining him.
You do not need a great deal of temerity to suggest that in the circumstances.
When I had the temerity to refer to this survey in a newspaper column, the wrath of a very substantial and vocal lobby came down upon my head.
Above all, she has a breathtaking fearlessness, and the talent to back up her temerity.
Don't you think it'll have something to do with your act, I venture, receiving an affronted look for my temerity.
It is his temerity in assuming that love is universally a good thing and a cause for celebration that has doomed him.
And if you have the temerity to do so your reputation will be shattered and your dignity will be shredded.
Now nearly two decades older, I am not yet entirely depleted of breezy temerity.
In fact, Leviev had the temerity to lecture Namibians on what would be good for them under his tutelage.
The astonishment at Exeter's temerity to claim the lead had barely subsided when the Grecians doubled their advantage.
They even had the temerity to ask how much I earn, which I always thought was a secret between me and the Receiver of Income.
This led to a split, and the expulsion of the socialist students league, despite the temerity of this organisation.
But he didn't acknowledge me at all until I had the temerity to speak, and ask a question.
Then Millwall, who had not contrived a single shot on goal, had the temerity to equalise.
For his temerity he was sentenced to be nailed by his ears to the local pillory and responded by laying a curse on the courtroom and city.
Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A person had the temerity to elbow Mrs. Austen and the audacity to smile at her.
Philip, holding his candle aloft, marveled at his own temerity in hitting this giant, oxlike in size and strength.
To the surprise of all who witnessed her temerity, the water-witch still showed all her light sails.
The Dead Man raised his iron hand as if to dash out her brains for her temerity.
Therefore it is perhaps possible to put the temerity of the Dogmatics to shame in aetiology by these Tropes.
Every advance which he had the temerity to make was by me rejected with indignation.
There was a sort of brutal temerity in his prudence, the temerity of a man with big fists.
The doctor and the nurse had the temerity to laugh at that, even with Julia, pink and dimply, right before them.
But there are things which no strength of mind, no temerity can resist.
Some of them had the temerity to begin giving us a fire in the rear.
He pronounced Loretto a madman for his temerity, but bade him depart in peace.
I shall have the temerity to ask for more than her forgiveness,' said the Squire.
Pontellier entered, wondering who had the temerity to disturb him at that hour of the morning.
Do you know what your unprecedented temerity would have cost you had you failed to kill either of the two chieftains whose metal you now wear?
Your boldness and unadvised temerity I cannot sufficiently admire.
It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.
I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me.
He paused, ready to pounce upon any man who might have the temerity to reply.
I began to think that the Captain's temerity justified Ned Land's fears.
These are questions that temerity alone will answer in the affirmative.
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