virile
Example Sentences
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It inspired his themes—war, fear, mutilation, endurance, courage, comradeship and death—and his laconic and stoical, virile and aggressive heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
In a YouTube video, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.
From BBC • May 24, 2025
Now, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
Social media introduced me to Cannon's quest to exemplify what he calls a "virile man," but I mostly ignored the commentary on him until it found its way into my circle of friends.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022
She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest—more than once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing virile
"My Wonder Horse," Vocabulary from the short story
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
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