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Examples of macho in a Sentence
Adjective
the macho world of football
Noun
their annual guys-only hunting trip is a celebration of macho
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EW.com, 30 Mar. 2024
Vargas rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s, and had a reputation for being macho and drinking hard.
—Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
The British actor plays the lead role of Cash (all the characters have names like that), whose macho bona fides are established in the opening sequence in which he’s shown doing shirtless pull-ups and push-ups, his chiseled musculature clearly earned the hard way.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
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Adjective
In August 1987, Dirty Dancing swept moviegoers off their feet with the upstairs-downstairs romance between an earnest daddy’s girl (Jennifer Grey) and a macho dance instructor (Patrick Swayze) at the fictional Kellerman's resort in the Catskills.
—EW.com, 30 Mar. 2024
Vargas rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s, and had a reputation for being macho and drinking hard.
—Jillian Eugenios, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
Sometimes a polarizing figure in country music, the 6-foot-4 singer broke out in the country boom years of the 1990s, crafting an identity around his macho, pro-American swagger and writing songs that fans loved to hear.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
The British actor plays the lead role of Cash (all the characters have names like that), whose macho bona fides are established in the opening sequence in which he’s shown doing shirtless pull-ups and push-ups, his chiseled musculature clearly earned the hard way.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Macho.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macho. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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