How to Use battle cry in a Sentence

battle cry

noun

• 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
• President Biden is stepping up his battle cry for 2024.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Some of Karol’s best songs are these kinds of battle cries — manifestos that don’t deny the hurt, but inch toward recovery and independence.
  — Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024