rallying

[ ral-ee-ing ]

noun

1. the sport of driving in automobile rallies.

Other Words From

• un·rally·ing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rallying¹

First recorded in 1955–60; rally ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Throughout the pandemic we’ve heard the same rallying cry – let’s not return to what we did before but use this as a moment for thoughtful, strategic change.

From Time

Greene is not only wasting GOP leaders’ time, she’s creating a rallying cry for the opposition.

From Time

The impeachment of the former president forces us to wrestle with a past that allowed such poisonous thinking to flourish and to become a rallying cry.

From Washington Post

The team said it was also “engaged in a thorough review process of the Arrowhead Chop,” but it has continued to allow home fans, fewer in number amid the coronavirus pandemic, to make the rallying gesture.

From Washington Post

Your rallying through doubts to embrace his now-wife is an important element of that.

From Washington Post

Kendrick rapidly chants these last lines in repetition with Bilal and Anna Wise sing-shouting behind him, like a rallying cry.

From The Daily Beast

The Internet cool kids are, of course, rallying against Swift en masse.

From The Daily Beast

The Internet cool kids are rallying against Taylor Swift after her bold screw-you to Spotify.

From The Daily Beast

There were impassioned heroes rallying together to become better than they thought they could be.

From The Daily Beast

With the rallying cries of these women propelling us forward, the time to move from rhetoric to reality is now.

From The Daily Beast

The Railway Benevolent Institution provided a rallying point.

From Project Gutenberg

Harry rode to the northwest, for he knew it was in that direction Poindexter was rallying his forces.

From Project Gutenberg

Rallying himself somewhat, he laid his hand upon the white cloak covering her shoulders.

From Project Gutenberg

A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."

From Project Gutenberg

The news was given out and the guerrillas were rallying at a given place in the western part of the county.

From Project Gutenberg

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