How to Use rallying in a Sentence

rallying

noun
  • And so [the book is] a rallying cry.
    — Khushbu Shah, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The sit-in was a rallying call heard across the country and around the world.
    — Rebecca Aguilar, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Many may shrug it off, but for some, those words become a rallying cry.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The team copied her moves and yelled the phrase that became the team’s rallying call.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Couldn’t Vrabel use that as a rallying cry for his men?
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In the eighth, the Rays remained true to their rallying form.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Lots of great takes on her Bluesky feed, but none may be better than this rallying cry.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Jayden said he was heartened by his neighbors’ rallying around him.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The rare losses have also been a rallying point for teams on their way to championships.
    — John Talty | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2022
  • In the third game of the day, Wasilla kept on taking leads and Chugiak kept on rallying.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2022
  • Now, with its slate clean, the Trojans had a new rallying cry ahead of the tournament.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • So that gave the rallying signal, that created a very steep divide.
    — NBC News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • His death became a rallying point for freedom of speech and transparency.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes, that comes with an opponent using him as a rallying cry.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Corporate tax rates have been a political rallying cry for decades on both sides of the aisle.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That insight became a rallying cry.
    — Meghan Keough, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • That has to be more than just a rallying cry, or more than a willingness to accept the outcomes of an election.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • But can the museum be a rallying point for Black artists here in Boston?
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • Tom Brady is done, too, despite the Bucs rallying from a 27-3 hole.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Homestead trailed by 10 points in the fourth quarter before rallying.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2022
  • In the 80 years since, it has been adopted more broadly as an anti-fascist rallying song.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But when the pandemic postponed the Games, her story became a rallying point for the team.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2021
  • The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • That resilience takes root in the phrase Haitian fans selected as the rallying cry around the national team.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Hardly a rallying call for a new approach to the 21st century.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • His story became a rallying cry for those opposed to the mass deportation plans.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In retrospect, maybe that should’ve been viewed less as a rallying cry and more of a harbinger of what was to come in his first calendar year.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The latter phrase invokes a popular motto that serves as a rallying cry to protect trans women.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • And the response has been a rallying of sovereign nations that no living person has seen before.
    — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Stocks are at all-time highs, with tech names in particular rallying even in the absence of any government data.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'rallying.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: