battle cry

Example Sentences

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With Zoë, she offers a generational battle cry: “Rise my post-menopausal sisters and fight; you have nothing to lose but your culturally imposed feelings of irrelevance.”

From Los Angeles Times

"You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife, the cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry," she said.

From BBC

The first line of “Hard Headed Woman,” the new record from Margo Price, begins with a battle cry.

From Salon

“Splitsville” lands at a moment when every comedy released to theaters feels like a battle cry, an attempt to defend audiences’ rights to have a good time at the movies.

From Los Angeles Times

The need to re-engage Britain on the compensation was the battle cry of many of the war veterans who led the farm invasions.

From BBC