How to Use machismo in a Sentence

machismo

noun
  • There is a healthy dose of machismo mixed in there, too.
    National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2016
  • There is a healthy dose of machismo mixed in there, too.
    National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2016
  • Where machismo could be left at the doorstep, muchas gracias.
    Sruthi Gottipati, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Gone was the puffed chest and the raucous machismo, stripped away to demonstrate that there’s resilience in frailty, too.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • There's a lot of people who don't like the idea of the machismo and right leaning aspects of hunting.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The room had to be filled with a sense of ominous machismo, which is an unusual for her.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Source of prostates and testes, muscles and machismo, chest hair, and according to some, even math skills.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Michael Mann’s latest is full of machismo and gory car crashes.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Duke Caboom is a toy with both machismo and melancholy.
    Lauren Le Vine, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • The piece jabs at the toxic nature of machismo while scrambling the boundaries of gender.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Role of Women: In our community, there is a lot of machismo.
    Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But that doesn't quite convey the machismo, the serious drugs, the hedonism, the wild debauchery of the life.
    Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
  • Brain injuries and machismo and fans who act like their lives depend on the number of touchdowns their teams score.
    Robert Morast, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Football players are at the hotel, and their toxic machismo is bumming the girlies out.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Rappers always have this machismo, and Chris was never like that.
    Michael Hamad, courant.com, 19 June 2017
  • Amazingly, this was not the most ludicrous attempt at machismo of the evening.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Maybe, even a decade later, there's some perceived machismo to protect.
    Anonymous, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • This might come as news to many in a region notorious for machismo.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Not all of them have been well-reviewed, but movies like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull bathe in the kind of edgy machismo that pins posters to the walls of college students.
    Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Even if the phenomenon was solely a crisis of machismo, isn’t there more to learn about it from the art history at the heart of his study?
    Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 23 May 2020
  • This sort of machismo is as timeless as a sword wielding Achilles from Homer's Iliad.
    Daniel Gallan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The vintage machismo that Donald Trump so prizes may explain why the gender gap in the popular opinion of him was so large.
    Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Africa’s wild places became a scenic backdrop to Westerners’ feats of machismo.
    The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2019
  • By turning her camera on these men against their will, Ms Anderson reveals the frailty of their machismo.
    The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The post shows Bieber standing in front of the t-shirt, while maybe-possibly clutching his genital region in a show of machismo.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Fights and machismo and grandstanding are all something that happen in normal male teenage life, but our show doesn’t treat [the use of weapons] lightly.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Well, the writing’s great at least, poking fun at the Bruce Campbell machismo archetype with its one-liners and self-serious plot.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 13 Dec. 2018
  • As the organization got bigger and bigger, in some ways the machismo got stronger.
    Valerie Jarrett, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Eric takes it as a chance to inject his young protégé with confidence and machismo.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Even President Biden has his aviators, which fans and detractors have latched on to as a symbol of his gentle machismo.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

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