How to Use hypermasculine in a Sentence

hypermasculine

adjective
  • Ving Rhames), his mother’s new lover, an ex-con whose hypermasculine image was missing from Jody’s life.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 July 2021
  • But in many ways he was imprisoned by this macho persona — a hypermasculine persona that, at the time, was seen as a positive thing.
    NBC News, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Coincidentally, there sure were a lot of movies about hypermasculine dudes at Venice this year.
    Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Mitchell has a basic mastery of the hypermasculine tropes of comic book culture and professional sports.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Lots of users want to connect with someone whose avatar is a doe-eyed woman in micro-jorts — or perhaps a hypermasculine beefcake with mandibles that splay out and away from his mouth like bat wings.
    New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The result was a pageant of fight choreography, wooden romance and hypermasculine hokum that soon entered the annals of so-bad-it’s-good camp classics.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Some are able to resist the hypermasculine culture that gives them and their colleagues permission to cuss out and beat up people like the five officers did Nichols.
    Shaun Harper, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For a lot of brands, big block letters, intense logos, fiery explosions and hypermasculine marketing schemes are the only way to get their products to the market.
    Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The displays of wealth and opulence, as well as the hypermasculine displays of sexuality.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
  • These are values that Allen says are unfortunately frowned upon in our hypermasculine culture.
    ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The raw meat diet may continue to be demystified in further research, and the lifestyle might lose some of its onerous, hypermasculine baggage.
    Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
  • These dads are hypermasculine and capable not only of extreme violence, but also of protecting and providing for their young charges.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • But these perceptions are driven less by scientific evidence and more by hypermasculine culture.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Laurie rejects the hypermasculine traits his grandfather enforces in favor of becoming one of the March girls, a radical concept for the time.
    Ivelisse Rodriguez, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Current and former students say that campuses are often hypermasculine, with female students facing overt harassment and abuse.
    Akanksha Singh, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Rather than two hypermasculine men sparring for Agathe’s affection, Félix and Oliver don’t see each other as enemies.
    Hannah Benson may 16, Literary Hub, 16 May 2025
  • Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Trump has successfully revived being anti-woke and boastfully hypermasculine in the comedy world — a mere reflection of what his politics are all about.
    Allison Jiang, The Hill, 10 June 2025
  • There are too many fans ogling rappers as racist, hypermasculine caricatures who don’t consider the anti-Blackness in demanding artists to live their raps at the expense of their life or freedom.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
  • This mindset among far-right Reformed evangelicals is deeply entwined with a hypermasculine virtuousness.
    Liam Adams, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
  • And Hank’s own clumsy attempts at hypermasculine child-rearing often come from his father, Cotton (Toby Huss).
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 July 2025
  • As cars evolved from status symbol to essential tool for everyday life, their marketing broadened, though the hypermasculine emphasis of the early mythology never abated.
    Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Some Republican women who might have considered running also balked at campaigning in the hypermasculine politics of the moment.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Putin posing topless is the viral version of this public peacocking, but casual misogyny, carefully staged photo ops, and boastful, hypermasculine rhetoric also fit the bill.
    Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
  • In a break from earlier obsessions with hypermasculine stars, young people have gravitated in recent years to male celebrities who have adopted feminine or submissive aesthetics.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The hypermasculine nicknames were profoundly unhelpful in identifying person and place.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The characters live in a hypermasculine environment that venerates bravado, toughness, and aggression.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • On the other hand, as is often the case with stereotypes, they can be internalized, and there absolutely is a hypermasculine performance favored by Latino men that feels specific to Latin culture.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Signs Your Child May Be Influenced This hypermasculine ideal has seeped into our mainstream culture to the point that muscle building goals are common among boys.
    Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025

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