virile
Example Sentences
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Virile young conductors swoon over Bruckner at his biggest and baddest, as Mehta did when he recorded the Eighth with the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
Virile, passionate, patriotic: these adjectives apply to the male lead of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, as well as to the movie itself.
From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2018
Virile to the point of coarseness, bursting with a health and vigor 100% American, they were rushed to the stricken vineyards of France and upon their robust stalks were grafted delicate, refined French shoots.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new London play, Night Life of a Virile Potato, was hooted, but its star, tempestuous Actress Sarah Churchill, 45, who had not trod the West End boards for twelve years, got a good hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the white ribbon of road the Virile Benedict of the Libraries came bicycling, treadling easily from the ankles.
From Once a Week by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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