macho

Example Sentences

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Svelte but swaggering, tender yet macho — this hairy-chested torch song might be the singer’s finest vocal performance.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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

Judy, the first rabbit to join the city's police force, has proven to her macho colleagues — buffaloes, hippos, and warthogs — that she deserves her place in the investigative department.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

We meet his look with bulletproof smiles, stone faces on which, with his myopic macho vision, he can't make out the writing on the walls.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez