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How to use the word macho in a Sentence?

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Men are embarrassed to go to the doctor to begin with, and you’re supposed to be a macho guy, so it’s difficult for men to say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a problem with my sex drive.’ That’s why the majority of male patients I see with HSDD are sent in by their partners.

Stanley Althof

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m not trying to be a hero or a macho man..it just happened very quick and I had no choice.

Usman Bhatti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Like Clark Gable, he (Pitt) has an aura, just an effortless zen, macho thing.

Owen Gleiberman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's not about being a macho, muscled protector.

People Editor-in-Chief Dan Wakeford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We suspected we'd see a bias towards males because science is done by people and people have an inherent male bias, this is especially true as many of our collections come from the Victorian era of macho hunters going out trying to shoot the biggest fiercest creatures for their collections.

Natalie Cooper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In society, we have this thing where men are supposed to be macho providers and protectors, while women are the nurturing and caring ones. I'm trying to shred that.

Donte Palmer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There was this whole subculture that these guys were buying into: a macho world of clandestine behavior beyond social norms, a lot of the appeal to these people was based on masculinity and bravado rather than something ideological or religious.

Shiraz Maher

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This whole vision seemed crazy 25 years ago, you realize we were asking a bunch of macho men to be social workers with a badge and a gun -- you may as well have been asking them to be Rockettes.

Connie Rice

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He is a very macho guy, but he’s scared, the scary part for him is that he lost his sister 11 years ago to the same cancer.

Richard Sanchez

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She is a very level-headed woman, who is a good judge of things, all woman who reach a certain level in politics have plenty in common: they've had to fight, they've had to win respect, prove themselves 10 times as much as any man, they've had to put up with macho attitudes, so by necessity they're tough.

Joelle Milquet

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This statement is extremely disgusting and blatantly homophobic, these are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These are young girls in a very macho, masculine society who are trying to make a living, but are being underpaid or not paid on time.

Bisi Alimi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it was very astute of the director. I'm not saying me but any woman playing that role just really opens the film up to the female audience as much as anything, ... It's much more embracing, it brings us all into the argument. It's not just then a macho movie, you know about men making war.

Helen Mirren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A macho man wants to hide his pain and not show his weakness and vulnerability, some men say they feel impotent and guilty for being unable to defend their family from rape and or attacks.

Ildefonso Jaimes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Law enforcement tends to have the same problems that the military has in making women feel valued and welcome, a lot of law enforcement agencies have a macho ethos that can make it harder for women to feel like they belong.

Stanford University

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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