How to Use virile in a Sentence

virile

adjective

• To the younger set, the crisis was a concern for the old and feeble, not the young and virile.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2020
• Our language suggests that hot is good and virile, and a sign of life and strength.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• In every case, a strong body is the goal, and most often, that means a virile male body.
  — Derek Beres, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2022
• All three pups have the same father, a virile male sea lion named Niko.
  — Matt McNulty, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2019
• One night, a virile young servant sneaks into the queen’s bed.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 2 July 2021
• Thanks to advances in medical science, the virile, balding type may soon go the way of the dodo bird.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2004
• In the wild, pandas are virile, with sperm counts a hundred times higher than humans.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2018
• The president's fierce defense of Rice had virile flare.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Nov. 2012
• Steve McQueen and his legendary car was, for many young Frenchmen of the '70s, the incarnation of male and virile codes.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 Jan. 2018
• Next to him, Priebus seems to be an older model of the same White House official, looking back at his younger, more virile self.
  — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 28 July 2017
• Sprung from the loins of the virile wellness industry, these next-gen pills and powders bear the seductive trappings of self-care.
  — Jancee Dunn, Allure, 2 Oct. 2018
• Mr. Kwiecien plays Onegin at first as a shameless flirt who toys with the smitten Tatiana, singing with virile allure and breezy charm.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Rap battles take the place of duels in this virile production, performed on a set as blank as the pages of a drama that might yet be written.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Could the name be a sly reference to the female fantasy of the virile pool boy depicted in endless films?
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• The young, virile Jack and his radiant wife Jacqueline embodied the American dream and the hopes of a nation.
  — Miriam Velasquez, Orange County Register, 28 May 2017
• The need to evolve from a Clamor into a Teo impelled a series of self-consciously virile escapades.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Their guru’s virile presence and checkered past preceded him in his days as a figure on the Sunset Strip.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The humpback songs spread horizontally, passing from one virile young thing to the next, like teenage fashions.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• The moment, in retrospect, came about from a virile accident.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• While virile Martin conformed to the Hollywood template of leading man, nebbishy Lewis was not an easy fit.
  — Carrie Rickey, Philly.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• Hard bop, in all its virile glory, has a hold on Davis, a supremely adept trombonist for whom the idiom is now as natural as his heartbeat.
  — Steve Davis, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• The video that sparked the controversy went virile after Faith's brother posted it on Facebook.
  — Kevin McGill, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• William Jackson Harper is a rom-com minor deity who has more than once been cast as a non-virile Black man in a relationship with a white woman.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Some of them frankly characterized fascism as a more virile expression of their party’s creed.
  — Martin Pugh, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
• Billy was famously virile, siring offspring with a pair of females, both of whom had names as human as his: Hannah and Matilda.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
• Gone was the powerful leader from Themyscira; in her place was a flirtatious woman whose main goals were making the Bat Man feel virile and convincing the men around her to do their jobs.
  — Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• DiCaprio and Pitt display two kinds of masculinity: loud, demonstrative Rick, who lives for praise, and laconic, virile Cliff, who lives to be needed.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 July 2019
• The vulnerability of his light, boyish sound also invites you in, even if some opera-goers might prefer the more virile Jonas Kaufmann.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• Snugly: The Fox News man — virile, muscular, steeped in history — is under siege from the softness of a woke society, and the evidence shows up in the numbers, goes the argument, which cites declining sperm counts and the like.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• Congratulations, your virile starter can now bake bread.
  — Lindsay Campbell, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024