How to Use rally the troops in a Sentence

rally the troops

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  • Something to point at to help rally the troops and instill fear.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 30 June 2021
  • No one can quarterback the defense like him or rally the troops.
    Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Peckham is also leading the charge to rally the troops and see some action.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The kind of person who can rally the troops and knows exactly how to get help where it’s needed.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Something your colleagues and peers weren’t expecting or an issue to rally the troops on?
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But what should have been a victory lap at times felt like an attempt to rally the troops, or at least reassure them.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Is that quarterback a guy who can galvanize a locker room and rally the troops and get guys to believe in him?
    Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But Nadella also sought to rally the troops as the company moves forward.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In a surprise appearance, Johnson joined them onstage to rally the troops.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But someone needs to rally the troops with confidence and demand excellence.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
  • However, the role of the Fed chair is, to some extent, to rally the troops toward a consensus.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • A week later, Woodward had to try to rally the troops for fear that hope of a successful season would slip into oblivion.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020
  • But Campbell is going to have to rally the troops once more, and hope for sustained health on this journey for the remainder of the season.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Now that all of show business has sunk to Valerie’s level of scrounging for scraps, there’s no one better qualified to rally the troops.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026
  • His thinking calcified into aphorism, and the aphorisms were often caricatures of ideas designed to rally the troops.
    The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2011
  • Next, Salas will rally the troops for a night at Diaspora, a dance party that pops up around the city specializing in afro beats, reggaeton, and dancehall music.
    Scarlett Lindeman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2023
  • But Musk’s reluctance to rally the troops–many of whom were introduced to Dogecoin by him–betrays a dawning realization that the eight-year-old joke is, well, getting old.
    Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg attempted to rally the troops on Thursday, following multiple rounds of layoffs that have decimated the social media giant’s workforce.
    Naomi Nix, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • A day after Disney announced parks boss Josh D’Amaro as its new CEO, the company held a global employee town hall meeting to rally the troops behind the new management regime.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026

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