Example sentences for: jingoism

How can you use “jingoism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The people were at first cool to the war, despite the jingoism of flashy aristocratic aesthete and author Gabriele D’Annunzio and his friend, an ex-socialist newspaperman named Benito Mussolini.

  • A combination of jingoism among political elites and insularity among the business elites who spearheaded this new international commerce provoked a near-50-year reaction against free trade and global communications.

  • Do other nations escape this jingoism?

  • There is, of course, an easily crossed line between confident optimism and arrogant jingoism, and that line was sometimes crossed--by Reagan himself and by many others--in the '80s (just as it was, much more disastrously, by many Democrats in the '60s).

  • The most irksome aspects of Disney's $140 million spectacle: its jingoism, ear-splitting sound effects, trite one-liners, and unlikely premise--the planet's fate rests with redneck oil drillers.


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