Example sentences for: machismo

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

  • For Reaganites, Sinatra symbolized all that was once right about America (and would be again after a few years of supply-side economics): classy music, machismo, bonhomie, and good times.

  • Alamo , the site of the Texas defeat by Santa Ana; hoosegow from juzgado `court'; dinero `money,' a Spanish corruption of the Latin denarius; macho , from the same root as machete : he who wields a machete must be skillful and powerful, hence the word has come to mean `virile' and its associated noun, machismo , `virility.

  • The author finds plenty of technical derring-do, but little Top Gun -style machismo.

  • 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.

  • He states, “Machismo is a personal code of honor that is self imposed in a world devoid of universal moral law or justice.


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