Example sentences for: machismo

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

  • She both loves and hates your entrepreneurial machismo.

  • The idea of exaggerated masculinity has crept into American popular culture and language, so most Americans have an idea of the meaning of machismo and we find it regularly used by the media.

  • Some critics are tickled by his parody of Latin American machismo, his scatological humor, and his taboo-busting musings about sex.

  • They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.

  • The OED2e is not tuned in to this pronunciation of machismo , showing only the - tch - pronunciation; the Longman and the newer Oxford Concise show both, but with - tch - first; only the Collins , of those British dictionaries I checked, shows the - k - pronunciation as prevalent.


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