bravo

"No, I stopped," said Meloni, prompting EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to cheer "bravo".

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

When Maxey—and really, bravo for Maxey, who is the soul of this Philly team—put Game 7 with a string of fearless drives, the statement was Lazarus-like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

You’ve created the life you wanted for yourself, and you can afford to eat in your favorite hotspots, so bravo for making it this far on your own terms.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

"You have brought happiness to all Ivorians, bravo, bravo," said President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, which hosted the pan-African tournament.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024

“You mean the idiots that I handpicked for cowardice and ineptitude? Oh, yes, bravo, Your Highness. That was a masterly piece of combat,” said Ripred, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

He was the leader of this troop of bravoes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Your dismissal of the bravoes, by means of the count’s ring, was a masterly stroke.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Long before this, however, the alarm had been given to other personages of our story; the bravoes in one place; and Agnes and Perpetua in another.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

However, if there were no bravoes, there was decidedly no hissing.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope

With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

Chicago is “a journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to the last herd of fantastic bravos that once roamed the newspaper offices of the country.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016

Rachel Moore is drawing bravos in Los Angeles, where she's headed to lead its downtown Music Center after 11 years as executive director of New York City-based American Ballet Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2015

And these—he pointed to some huge black bulls—were Percy’s toros bravos.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

There were bravos and, from the many young people I saw around me, shouts and hoots for Ms. Weilerstein and the composer.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2014

Celia’s decision wins her both bravos and more full-throated squabbling.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it was published in London last month, British critics bravoed.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.

From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was visibly furious when the soloists in Otello tricked him by going offstage by another exit and hiding until Toscanini was forced to face the bravoing audience alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a burst of loud bravoing and clapping.

From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley