How to Use machismo in a Sentence

machismo

noun
  • Where machismo could be left at the doorstep, muchas gracias.
    — Sruthi Gottipati, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Michael Mann’s latest is full of machismo and gory car crashes.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • One common pitch centers on machismo.
    — New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • This might come as news to many in a region notorious for machismo.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Source of prostates and testes, muscles and machismo, chest hair, and according to some, even math skills.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Sometimes women can do a better job of taking some of the machismo and ego out of it, right?
    — Tashan Reed, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • An ex-convict steeped in machismo navigates learning that his son is gay.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Rappers always have this machismo, and Chris was never like that.
    — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 19 June 2017
  • 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
  • Eric takes it as a chance to inject his young protégé with confidence and machismo.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The piece jabs at the toxic nature of machismo while scrambling the boundaries of gender.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Football players are at the hotel, and their toxic machismo is bumming the girlies out.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Indeed, the series could be said to describe the tragedy of machismo, affecting both sides.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Amazingly, this was not the most ludicrous attempt at machismo of the evening.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Previously, Grey has said that Swayze dished out pranks and machismo there.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Africa’s wild places became a scenic backdrop to Westerners’ feats of machismo.
    — The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2019
  • As the organization got bigger and bigger, in some ways the machismo got stronger.
    — Valerie Jarrett, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The spectre of their conflict added a dash of machismo to a night that was otherwise a victory lap for women.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • On the strength of it, he was hired to create another ode to high-velocity machismo, this one at feature length.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
  • Venuti, in his afterword, points out that parts of the novel can be read as a critique of Fascist machismo.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The disaffected machismo of Nadie seemed to exhaust the man taunting haters and hangers-on.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • By turning her camera on these men against their will, Ms Anderson reveals the frailty of their machismo.
    — The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
  • This sort of machismo is as timeless as a sword wielding Achilles from Homer's Iliad.
    — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • In the machismo culture of the newsroom, burnout was a foreign concept, as was counseling a workaholic to pace himself.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • The machismo culture is strong in Argentina, where women are often catcalled, hissed at and harassed on the street.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2017

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