How do you use the word "bold" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bold" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bold": May I make so bold as to request your assistance? The bold man glanced at the gangster with hatred and contempt.

Bold Meaning

/ˈbəʊld/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjCourageous, daring.

adjVisually striking; conspicuous.

Sentence Examples

May I make so bold as to request your assistance?

The bold man glanced at the gangster with hatred and contempt.

It was a bold move on their part to open a business in France.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

rash brave sheer

Antonyms:

timid inconspicuous

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ explorer ventured into the dark cave without any fear.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

It was a ____ move to quit his job and start his own small company.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”). Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). Compare typologically Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you." — 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 239c:

"[…] even the boldeſt and moſt affirmative Philoſophy, which has ever attempted to impoſe its crude Dictates and Principles on Mankind." — 1748, [David Hume], “Essay I. On the different Species of Philosophy.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part I, page 18:

"The grounds descend with a bold slope to the water's edge, and rise finely upwards above the mansion, abounding with fine trees, and ornamented by a range of building at a distance, in a corresponding style […]" — 1808, William Bernard Cooke, A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, page 144:

"[…] for this buſines, It touches vs, as France inuades our land Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare, Moſt iuſt and heauy cauſes make oppoſe." — c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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