How to Use battle cry in a Sentence

battle cry

noun
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  • The need for a hit record is many artists' loud battle cry.
    — David Rishty, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In 2021, the naked dress is more of a battle cry than a body-con casing.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The result is a battle cry of a painting, much copied through the 1770s.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But the rest of U-M's defense used this as a battle cry in Texas.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2017
  • This was, for weeks, the battle cry from hordes of Michigan fans.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • These battle cries are not the only spooky noises lynx make.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 28 Mar. 2018
  • That's the latest battle cry from many Cleveland Browns fans.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Queen Bey's high-energy anthem is a crowd-pleaser and a battle cry at the same time.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Mar. 2022
  • At the end of each 60-second pitch came a Spartacus-like battle cry with the company name.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The battle cry continues, just a little closer to home this year.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
  • This has been the concept and battle cry heard inside Michigan's program all year.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Her battle cry came at the end of a festival that was clearly — like much of Hollywood — struggling to find its place in the post-#MeToo era.
    — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • And Texans really have adopted the phrase as a battle cry.
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 10 Mar. 2017
  • After all, the two governors were elected in 2018 and used a similar battle cry: Fix the damn roads.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This reply has becomes Ukraine’s battle cry in its war against Russia.
    — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The View audience sounded a battle cry of boos in opposition to the rule of the Kim Kardashian empire.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • His speech was a battle cry and an ominous warning that the reconfiguring of Hong Kong is far from complete.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • To this generation of activists, that four-letter word -- VOTE -- is a battle cry stronger than any hashtag.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Portland has the right to keeps fluoride out of its water because the battle cry of American freedom trumps a data point on a graph.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2013
  • Feminists quickly turned McConnell's phrase into a battle cry on protest signs and T-shirts that would resonate throughout the year.
    — Hannah Smothers, Cosmopolitan, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The twist is that, transported to colonial context, the same image served as a battle cry against Indigenous peoples.
    — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Many come with a simple battle cry, emblazoned on stickers and banners.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The other problem is the word itself, which has been a term of abuse employed by the far right, a battle cry for the progressive left, and an embarrassment to many liberals.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Emboldened, Newhouse cleared the wall and made that moment her personal battle cry.
    — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Trump’s battle cry for much of the past three years, has given way to an open invitation to foreign actors, asking one or more to interfere in the 2020 election.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
  • Yet unlike many progressives, Wolf’s battle cry is not to tear down institutions and topple those who run them.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023

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