Example sentences for: virile

How can you use “virile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A critic at the time described the movie admiringly as "virile"--and I'm forced to agree.

  • If it's drug abuse to take a pill simply to look virile, the piece wonders, why isn't it illegal to take one to become virile?

  • With no loss of beauty and status (men's suits are just as becoming as they ever were), perfect male tailoring has lost some of its virile edge.

  • When first published, the Tarzan stories provided a largely American audience of white men and boys with a fantasy version of the ultimate White Guy, the virile aristocrat, who, far from being effete and degenerate, could go Ape as well as Ascot.

  • Alamo , the site of the Texas defeat by Santa Ana; hoosegow from juzgado `court'; dinero `money,' a Spanish corruption of the Latin denarius; macho , from the same root as machete : he who wields a machete must be skillful and powerful, hence the word has come to mean `virile' and its associated noun, machismo , `virility.


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