How to Use battle cry in a Sentence

battle cry

noun
  • That was our battle cry all year.
    — Jon Poorman, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
    — NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
  • This was, for weeks, the battle cry from hordes of Michigan fans.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The sound of this widow weeping echos throughout this world like a battle cry.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The sound of this widow weeping echos throughout this world like a battle cry.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The sound of this widow weeping echoes throughout this world like a battle cry.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Hang it out there and the wicket will come must be the battle cry for all seam attacks now against the great man.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • With 46 games to play, that might as well be the Giants’ battle cry.
    — Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Or a bop, or a folk tale, or a battle cry, or a 10-minute coming of age song about a scarf.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • In 2021, the naked dress is more of a battle cry than a body-con casing.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In 2021, the naked dress is more of a battle cry than a body-con casing.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 2 July 2021
  • The battle cry continues, just a little closer to home this year.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
  • That's the latest battle cry from many Cleveland Browns fans.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The result is a battle cry of a painting, much copied through the 1770s.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Queen Bey's high-energy anthem is a crowd-pleaser and a battle cry at the same time.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Mar. 2022
  • High above them, Elphaba sounds her battle cry and flies off into the distance.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This has been the concept and battle cry heard inside Michigan's program all year.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
  • This reply has becomes Ukraine’s battle cry in its war against Russia.
    — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The battle cry is sounded; the mongooses face off shoulder to shoulder.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • This is done with Taub’s sheer skills with the song styles varying from strong recitatives to insightful arias and battle cries.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The documentary weaves together these threads to make a holistic portrait of an artist’s battle cry.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • While this was the first time many had witnessed the battle cry, the chant was also relatively new to Iceland as well.
    — Jenna West, SI.com, 15 June 2018
  • But his method is mostly charging into the fray, shouting battle cries or tossing out Australian drollery.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
  • But Avery quickly became the battle cry for the company.
    — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • At the end of each 60-second pitch came a Spartacus-like battle cry with the company name.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Poetry is sung or recited at every major event of our lives, from battle cry to betrothal, across all cultures and climes.
    — K.j.s. “sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For Har’el, who built her career by constantly knocking on closed doors and then knocking them down, this is more than just a plaintive battle cry.
    — Stacy Perman, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • Advocate for yourself was the battle cry of the American patient.
    — Nami Mun, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
  • Many of the artists who could take up his battle cry — elder statesmen of rock with large enough catalogues to hurt the streaming service — no longer own their own music.
    — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021

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