be bold

Example Sentences

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Admission is free, no reservations necessary, so be bold in your choices.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

We can’t expect to remain free without being virtuous, we can’t be bold without being rooted, we can’t be great without aiming first to be good.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"You really have to be bold as a woman working in construction," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Elsbeth creator Jonathan Tolins says the script was always planned to be bold, and though real life intersected in uncanny ways, the episode wasn’t rewritten to reflect it.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

"A bold man, you said. You must be bold, to rise. As I have. To Harrenhal, yes! And why not? You know. You are a bold man too, I sense. Small, mayhap, but bold."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin