macho

Example Sentences

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Novelist Dame Jilly Cooper scolded the team behind Rivals and told them to stop making her "macho men" cry on screen, an executive producer on the show has said.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Inherently compelling but also a shade predictable, the genre promises a tantalizing glimpse at a terrifyingly macho world — one that most of us are fortunate not to know firsthand.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recruiting has famously used aggressive, macho memes to attract the Francises of the world.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Indian cinema's, and especially Bollywood's, fixation with the macho hero goes back to Amitabh Bachchan's "angry young man" image of the 1970s.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

Dede had looked at her husband, a long look as if she could draw the young man of her dreams out from the bossy, old-fashioned macho he’d become.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez