How to Use vicarious in a Sentence

vicarious

adjective

• In a series of posts, the pair gave us a vicarious tour through the iconic city.
  — Emily Wang, Glamour, 23 July 2018
• There's a bit of vicarious living going on there in the songs.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2017
• For Austin and perhaps others, the thrill will soon not be vicarious.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016
• The process goes smoothly enough, but this vicarious thrill reels out of control in a hurry.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
• Here are nine movies about the vicarious thrill of victory and the secondhand agony of defeat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• Such vicarious voyages through the past and present of classical music from the comfort of your couch may be no match for the real thing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• One of the perks of the job, Goucher told me, was getting a vicarious thrill of being close to the action of elite-level competition.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 3 Nov. 2021
• Call it cyber-vicarious — scary fast and almost as good as being there.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2022
• Getting lost in a romance novel gave her the vicarious thrill of falling in love without having to talk to or touch anyone.
  — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
• Forty-seven years after that vicarious connection, Dobbins met Tyler face to face for the first time last month.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• There’s a lot of vicarious pleasure to be had in this charming book, and none of the drawbacks of a real day at the beach: The characters apply no sunscreen yet go unburned!
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Viewers can’t look away, cringe from vicarious fear, or some combination of both — and are amazed that Thompson isn’t fazed at all.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• So, there is pleasure to be had from these vicarious visits to Dodge, but are there any other benefits?
  — Mathias Clasen, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
• These gift boxes from Culinary Backstreets are designed to create a vicarious trip to a city like Naples or Athens at a time when travel is on hold.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• Even for teens who aren’t already living with mental health strains, vicarious trauma can take a toll.
  — Claire Lampen, Teen Vogue, 24 May 2018
• For some, part of 50 Cent fandom was their vicarious thrill of following his drama.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• And Trump is the champion and defender of the latter — the man who, with his words of anger and grievance, permits them the possibility of vicarious vengeance.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• To watch videos like the Williams brothers’ is to experience a vicarious thrill of discovery, to scrub your mind’s ears clean and rehear a familiar song as if for the first time.
  — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2020
• Third, the right to bring a defamation case should be limited to the person who claims injury; suits should not be available to anyone who takes vicarious offence.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Research shows that the effect of vicarious grief is strongest when a person identifies with the victims.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Setting her apart from others in the group was an idiosyncratic rather than a vicarious motive for rising to the bait of a bedazzling newness.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• There is a vicarious thrill in watching the unfurling of, say, Oregon or Oral Roberts, that stamps the prior day’s achievement as official.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• The Game both understand this in their own way, modeling the vicarious pity and guilty delight that comes from watching events unfold in slasher films.
  — Wired, 10 July 2022
• What is most compelling is the vicarious sense of judgments made on the fly, according to the standard that shapes any art scene not distorted by marketing: the esteem of peers.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The temptation for a vicarious do-over is immense, and so are the stage-mom rationalizations.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2016
• The vicarious thrill of veering into the unreasonable, of making a scene.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 20 July 2017
• The novel can be read as a stirring meditation on grief or a vicarious confrontation with the joys and risks of motherhood.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The sole claim the jury will decide is whether Disney is liable for vicarious infringement.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• Hopefully the rest of this Jonas Brothers promotional tour will bring more group date moments, because the vicarious fun is just too good.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 6 Apr. 2019
• Like soap operas for adults, Bandstand became a vicarious thrill for a whole viable subculture of teen-agers who were in search of their own identity.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 18 June 2019

Last Updated: 22 Apr 2024