machismo

Example Sentences

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Instead, we are getting messaging in the style of machismo.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

He never rose beyond private first class during a 1950s stint in the military, but he projected so much machismo that he seemed born to wear an officer’s uniform.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the Hummer, has been relaunched as an electric vehicle.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

His depictions of authoritarianism, violence and machismo, using rich language and imagery, made him a star of the Latin American Boom literary movement that shone a global spotlight on the continent.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

In the days after, I watched the ridiculous pageantry of flags, the machismo of firemen, the overwrought slogans.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates