jingo

Example Sentences

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“I’m singing about ‘looking out for the jingoes and heathens’ or ‘another black kid shot in town’.”

From The Guardian

“High jingo was an untouchable and dad was exactly that. He was untouchable. … He was the go-to guy for abortions, which of course was a felony back then.”

From Fox News

Read between the lines, people, and learn the jingo.

From New York Times

To some extent, Trump’s focus on “making America great again” – a political jingo that in itself contains an element of criticism of the state of the nation – chimes with the UN’s concern about extreme poverty.

From The Guardian

This message, and the nationalist jingo that Trump has married to it, has been a long time coming.

From Time