How to Use jingoism in a Sentence

jingoism

noun

• When the war began many people were caught up in a wave of jingoism.
• These series, likewise, have two hands: one to pull the trigger, one to pull back on the jingoism.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• The text is free of the ebullient jingoism beloved of Mr Johnson and his cabinet.
  — The Economist, 20 Mar. 2021
• That was back when outward white jingoism was more of a fringe movement.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• How many people would watch without the flags and jingoism?
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• But wrapping it up in religion and jingoism has proved to be a disservice to those who most rely on it.
  — Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2020
• But it was whipped up into this distasteful spasm of jingoism.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• There was more than simple jingoism at play in that reaction.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• There was a lot of patriotism, a lot of jingoism along with it, and reactionism as well.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• Is your sense that, within Russia, even among people who may not like Putin, there is a certain amount of jingoism about the Ukrainian question?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2022
• Some smart people think that this is all juvenile jingoism.
  — The Economist, 21 Mar. 2020
• Similarly, Hill writes, grunge was in part a result of Generation X’s eye-rolling at the decadence, jingoism and preppy elitism of the ’80s.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• That lends more than a touch of jingoism to this otherwise amusing, mechanistic parlor trick, which builds to a surge of emotion that might make your heart sink or soar.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sour Prom’s teenage jingoism means one thing: hegemony.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 July 2021
• Shakespeare was a showman, and his Henry plays played to English jingoism and mythmaking.
  — Jeanette Winterson, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• An uneasy current of jingoism runs through the capital.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• In a little under eight and a half minutes, the film mocks the military mind-set and empty jingoism while creating a picture of an overwhelmed young boy that could melt the hardest heart.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• Worth it just for the scene in which the vampires descend on a bar and defenestrate every vestige of yeehaw, good ol’ boy American jingoism.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
• Gilbert’s lyrics are a satire on the complacent jingoism of the Victorian middleclass at a time when Britannia really did rule the waves and the Brits had maybe got a bit above ourselves.
  — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• Toshiba’s laptop sales have dropped sharply in China amid a slew of bad publicity in the state media, some of it laced with jingoism and anti-Japanese rhetoric.
  — Reuters, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2000
• It has been warped into bitter jingoism, the rough parts redacted, a textbook example of the way in which memory can be perverted in the name of politics.
  — Sophie Pinkham, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Some of that is tedious jingoism and stereotype, but the reality remains that the major leagues in North America are all closed shops, protected by rules and laws.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• In a little under 8½ minutes, the film mocks the military mindset and empty jingoism while creating a picture of an overwhelmed young boy that could melt the hardest heart.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2020
• This is going to go down smoothly in China over the holiday, and with Wu in the lead, the film could prove a modest hit with overseas action fans, though the rah-rah jingoism could put off some Asia-Pacific markets.
  — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2019
• With recent feats by China in orbit and on the moon, the impulse among many Americans will be extreme pride verging on jingoism, and the return of the U.S. flag, stranded in orbit for the past eight years, will be a useful symbol.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2019
• Which is why the Dril character is a parody of a typical citizen: bloated on fast food and jingoism, lacking any trace of self-awareness or shame.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2018
• For all that has changed in the decades since, Americans of all ethnicities are still often seen as the agents of empire, and their reputation for arrogance and jingoism persists.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• As the social cohesion of economic growth has ebbed, the Chinese — specifically the Han Chinese — have doubled down on jingoism.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
• Patriotism — the genuine kind, not jingoism or boobery.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Its first song is still relevant to anyone pondering the Strangelovian strains of American jingoism.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024