party cry
Example Sentences
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The Juarists saluted him by their party cry, "Viva la libertad!"
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
Yet he lent himself to the party cry that Pitt was taking his first measures for the re-enslavement of Ireland.
From Burke by Morley, John
Lady Tyrrell—all the ladies, in fact—have set their minds on it, and if I objected there would instantly be a party cry against me, and that is the one thing I have always avoided.”
From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
It is the least vulnerable of the three, and for this reason it is the least fitted to furnish a party cry.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
The party cry of ‘driving out the pollution’ was raised against the Alcmaeonidae and other families in Athens, who were supposed to lie under a traditional curse.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
