How to Use virility in a Sentence

virility

noun

• Like a thick beard or bushy mustache, chest hair is a badge of virility.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 28 Sep. 2017
• The Latin viridis evoked virility, virtue, and verdure.
  — John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2019
• Maybe before long God will take away even the little bit of virility that’s left me.
  — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• But Zima was typecast as a girly drink, with all the virility of a white wine cooler.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Then, in a display of his virility, the 73-year-old character actor dropped to the floor and did one-armed push-ups.
  — Bruce Fretts, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2017
• For Walter White and his many TV cousins, crime has often been about self-worth, even virility.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• When the treatments were stopped, the mice returned to normal levels of virility within four to six weeks.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
• And besides, his size and the robustness of his voice add a welcome virility that is sometimes missing in the role.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 21 July 2019
• Not Peter, who knew the truth — four times, it was later revealed on the show, half a world away, to the quixotic delight of his parents, so proud of their son’s virility.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• Also from the get-go, the lens turns both inward, to Ajo Kawir’s thoughts, and outward, to a world too often preoccupied with the virility of its men.
  — Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
• Drunk but full of vim, vigor, and, as the girthy silhouette in his pants suggested, virility.
  — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• That's where this complex comes in – it's made up of a blend of herbs that have been used for centuries to improve male virility and vitality.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2023
• Male sexuality and virility is a point of pride for the Fox News father.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
• And with that, comes a slew of high-end food delivery services catering to wellbeing and virility—both in New York City and around the country.
  — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Jan. 2016
• Vuelve a la vida means return to life, and is seen in Venezuela as a sauce that aids with virility and is commonly used as an aphrodisiac.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• There’s even a dish called pangolin fetus soup, believed to enhance a man’s virility.
  — Rachael Bale, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2017
• Feeling out of place in a current world, clinging to old world values such as virility but, as captured in a first scene in a brothel, Toribio can’t even get it up.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• The idea that an immature man might want to bolster his stature among his peers by boasting of his virility seems intuitive.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 8 Oct. 2016
• In China, they’ve been coveted as a source of potency and virility for 600 years.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2016
• In China, they’ve been coveted as a source of potency and virility for 600 years.
  — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 3 July 2016
• Both men wanted war; both embraced it as a test of virility against a decadent enemy.
  — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2022
• On the other hand, Kerry sure is giving Logan a lot of grossly colored juice that could be full of virility boosters!
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• Savagery was just a nuance away from virility, after all.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• They wouldn’t be caught in anything that doesn’t convey their virility, their nonchalance.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
• But Commerce is more than just bragging about the virility of American business.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
• Putin, a 65-year-old man in a country with a male life expectancy of 64, embodies an image of Russian virility and swagger.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
• The trade is banned as its use in East Asia for alleged cancer cures and virility boosters has led to an illicit market that has caused rampant poaching.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
• Valéry Carnoy addresses the subject of the injunction to virility, in a highly visual first feature.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
• Those same mice returned to normal levels of virility four to six weeks after treatments ended.
  — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
• White represents purity, while blue stands for the state’s sky and mountains and signifies fidelity, justice and virility.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024