NOUN
- a yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle
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a slogan used to rally support for a cause
a cry to arms
our watchword will be `democracy'
How To Use rallying cry In A Sentence
- Community groups in York are being urged to respond to a rallying cry to take part in a massive city centre parade in September.
- ‘Canada does not have bears to spare,’ has become a rallying cry of environmental groups and ordinary citizens in Canada opposed to the plan.
- As Bluto Blutarsky in "Animal House, '' John made cinema history by smashing a guitar, imitating a" zit "in the cafeteria and inspiring his fraternity brothers with the rallying cry:" Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Our Guide to Famous Brothers
- ‘Everybody tighten your belt’ is not a powerful rallying cry.
- The murky circumstances of his death have become a rallying cry for those at the extreme end of the movement. Times, Sunday Times
- Let this weekend's anniversary be a rallying cry for a safer future for them all. Times, Sunday Times
- Prohibition—the legislated imposition of teetotalism on the unwilling—was an idea that had been lurking beneath the earnest pieties of the temperance movement and was transformed in the late 1840s into a rallying cry. LAST CALL
- It has been a radical rallying cry ever since Lenin laid it down as doctrine.
- There he issued a rallying cry to resurrect professional rugby league in York and, since then, has put in numerous hours of unpaid work, along with Hall and Miller, to get a club back in the Rugby Football League.
- Land and liberty" was the rallying cry of revolutionary Mexico.
