How to Use in-your-face in a Sentence

in-your-face

adjective
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  • But that kind of in-your-face move could spark a messy veto fight.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But this in-your-face modern tragedy has something to say and says it with verve and style.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2023
  • His in-your-face classicism is the kind of thing critics love to fight about.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024
  • Aries often prefer in-your-face wines, like a Cab, Brown says.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Suggs is one of the most in-your-face perimeter defenders in the NBA this season.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The subtext, and sometimes the in-your-face text is that exercise is mostly about weight loss and how one looks.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • No one ever accused Skrillex of subtlety, and this is prime in-your-face fun.
    — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
  • These pieces are all designed to fit the Jean Paul Gaultier narrative of cheeky, fun, and in-your-face clothing.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Rodrigo's whole look is a far cry from the brazen, in-your-face outfits of the 2000s: Her letting the fuzzy top be the focal point feels like just the right amount of statement.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2023
  • With no off-road package and an in-your-face mug that limits its approach angle, the LX lacks the off-road chops of its Toyota kin.
    — Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At New York’s Hudson Yards shopping center, any store with an in-your-face sale sign was drawing a crowd.
    — Jeannette Neumann, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • At New York's Hudson Yards shopping center, any store with an in-your-face sale sign was drawing a crowd.
    — Jeannette Neumann and Olivia Rockeman Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • With their in-your-face style, the Panthers are bound to be fairly generous in putting their opposition on the PP.
    — Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
  • Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The flavor of the boozy version isn’t nearly as in-your-face orange as its inspiration.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
  • Advertisement Part of that has to do with how early 1990s in-your-face filmmaking can still shock.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • The same goes for any in-your-face promos for solutions shoppers perceive as nonessential.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There are elements of the brash, in-your-face sound of The Girls Are Back in town, but now it’s tempered with a sweeter, lighter approach that’s at times vulnerable.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Both have an in-your-face approach to coaching with the ideology defense should always come first.
    — Zion Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
  • The show became the standard bearer of a new brand of in-your-face television in the 1990s that audiences embraced and critics decried as exploitive and tasteless.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
  • They were dressed in one of their tour outfits: all sparkly, shimmery sequins and shoulder pads, a throwback to the 2000s and the unabashed, in-your-face positivity that was, and is, RBD.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • One designed to be a jokey conversation piece, though at least half the joke is the title, which is so hilariously basic, so 1980s-meets-Tik-Tok, so balls-out-and-in-your-face.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ben Davis did it with a team that played together and unselfish, turning on the jets when necessary with an in-your-face press and sharing the ball like a team that truly did not care who received the credit.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This season, blossoms are having quite a moment—not just your traditional floral prints, but in-your-face, 3D blooms that almost appear to come to life.
    — Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
  • Four model years in now, the X3 M Competition's in-your-face attitude remains intact.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
  • The typical housewife’s wardrobe is packed with in-your-face labels, audacious colors, and gaudy jewelry.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But while arguably the most in-your-face example of how law enforcement agencies are tapping AI technology for policing, the K5 is just the tip of a much more discrete iceberg.
    — Bysage Lazzaro, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • But, as is tradition, the haters hardly scratched the surface of this sixth record, overlooking its genuine feats of all-encompassing production and high-energy, in-your-face vocals.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Wilks was direct: The 49ers, known for playing zone coverage and blitzing sparingly, have corners capable of playing more in-your-face press coverage.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023

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