virile

Example Sentences

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Their guru’s virile presence and checkered past preceded him in his days as a figure on the Sunset Strip.

From Los Angeles Times

To call this a virile view of art would be to imply that feminine eyes are incapable of “big strong seeing,” which obviously won’t do.

From Washington Post

It's similar more broadly to Nixon's obsession with big, strong, virile, authoritarian men.

From Salon

Also in The Washington Post, Ron Charles looked back at Norman Mailer, who “belonged to a time when writers could be jerks — and worse. He was virile, vile and viral.”

From New York Times

But virile mates are hard to come by in dark caves, so the female bugs must hold their living sperm banks tight.

From New York Times