virile
Example Sentences
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The performances of the symphonies, on Thursday and Saturday, came across considerably more persuasively than the concerto did on Wednesday, though Mr. Zukerman, now age 77, was in fine, virile form.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
Now, a new, more virile chortle has risen to take its place.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2023
It's similar more broadly to Nixon's obsession with big, strong, virile, authoritarian men.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2023
A key item, a button-front underwear shirt, shares heritage with today’s henley, a shirt that’s never shed its virile associations.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
And one day I might just marry a virile, but tender, garage mechanic and have a big cowy family, like Dodo Conway.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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