How to Use rallying cry in a Sentence

rallying cry

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  • Since the ‘80s, that’s been the rallying cry of Morris Day, lead singer of The Time.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That’s been the data point and rallying cry for more than 20 years.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
  • That goes down as the rallying cry for the rest of Oregon State’s season.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
  • One of the rallying cries the retail traders used was HODL: hold on for dear life.
    — Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Then Petrie dropped the mic with what has been USD’s rallying cry all season.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • So why aren’t the Democrats turning this into a rallying cry?
    — Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The issue has become a rallying cry for the midterm elections.
    — CBS News, 5 June 2022
  • The phrase has since become a far-right rallying cry against the president.
    — al, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Some teams could use the challenge of a back-to-back as a rallying cry, while others simply throw in the towel.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • For years, this mantra has been the industry’s rallying cry for change.
    — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The coach’s words before tipoff sounded like a rallying cry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • On the trail, Trump has sought to turn his legal problems into a rallying cry.
    — Hannah Knowles and Maeve Reston, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
  • Across the period of the civil rights era, Emmett Till was a rallying cry.
    — ABC News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • McClain’s death became a rallying cry in the months of protests that followed.
    — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The color red is a rallying cry to the communism that Joe Biden is spreading throughout the U.S.
    — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The mother and son’s deaths became a rallying cry for fellow refugees.
    — Victoria Kim Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The more heavy-handed and imperious the top dog becomes, the stronger your rallying cry grows.
    — Jeremy Andrus, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The founders invoked slavery as a rallying cry to marshal their forces.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Still, that process could cause chaos and be used as a rallying cry behind election disputes.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, ajc, 30 Dec. 2021
  • His death became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2022
  • So the prospect of A.I. screenwriting has become potent, both as threat and rallying cry.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Ragland’s death at times became a rallying cry for demonstrators in Huntsville in 2020.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Callie John Calvert screamed her rallying cry with her teammates at her first game.
    — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The fatal shooting has become a rallying cry in the film industry for safer sets.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The samurai photo shoot was not originally meant to be a rallying cry for support in the Ukraine.
    — Fox News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Over the past few years, calls for cancellation of student debt have become a rallying cry.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 18 Aug. 2022
  • As with so much else in the region, the Dees’ deaths quickly became a political rallying cry.
    — Shira Pinson, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This was a rallying cry for national optimism in the depths of despair.
    — Stephen S. Roach, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The original Earth Day was a rallying cry, a protest over the past 150 years of industrialization in the United States.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The late activist’s name has been used as a rallying cry for the ongoing protests against the country’s morality police.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2022

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