How to Use troll in a Sentence

troll

1 of 2 noun
  • When the trolls show up, block and delete.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Get this troll back under the bridge.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • How many of them were being pure trolls?
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Stevens had to get his troll friends to take the above steps, too.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • Grab a troll hunter map at the entrance to find them all.
    — Cheryl Rodewig, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This isn't the first time one of Dambo's trolls has burned down.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • And then we get traumatized by a whole troll.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • It was later replaced with a new troll the next year.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • Don’t respond to like, trolls in your comments.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Don't respond to trolls in your comments.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Now, right-wing trolls are trying to make this race—which should be about you—about her.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Online trolls want a skinny girl?
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Even if a plan is solid, clowns and trolls might try to take it down anyway.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • It wasn’t driven by online trolls.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The trolls in Raleigh are already open to the public.
    — Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Jelly Roll knows about his online trolls.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Goldberger could come across as a troll—aggrieved but amused.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But for the haters and the trolls out there, that’s exactly what happened.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But for the haters and the trolls out there, that’s exactly what happened.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Pretty much all of Lil Mabu’s songs are the same try-hard troll jobs.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
  • However, the club has been calling out the trolls.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Colorado blades work best with a slower troll, such as under 2 miles per hour.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
  • After his death, there was not a single troll on social media.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Your kids will be singing and laughing along to the music of six different troll tribes.
    — Carson Blackwelder, Country Living, 24 June 2023
  • No need to give the trolls any more attention than necessary.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Dambo’s trolls are forest protectors but in a far more tender way.
    — Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Social media is filled with trolls who love to spew hatred of our city, often with a racist edge.
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
  • What came next was a back-and-forth between the troll group and the Raygun account.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • The birdhouses then turned into trolls.
    — Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025

troll

2 of 2 verb
  • They were trolling the ocean floor.
  • She loves to troll flea markets looking for bargains.
  • Hegesth’s post is trolling, nothing more.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Where rod rules can get really sticky is when trolling.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • And the perfect time to troll your spouse, per this celeb couple?
    — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2021
  • And what is trolling but cynical irony?
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The pope trolled a Chicago Cubs fan.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fuentes came of age in an ecosystem of edgelord posting and trolling in-jokes.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Stokes seems to enjoy trolling the media and public a bit, too.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The news comes after the rapper spent the weekend trolling his fans.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Kiffin is well known for trolling during and after games.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Octane and Fuse are my go-to’s, and people troll me hard for that.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Not one to pass up on a good laugh, Sofía couldn't help but troll him about his looks from way back when.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2023
  • My job was to troll for dough, look for customers, be charming and not let the egg roll fall in my lap.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Each guest was invited to hurl a brick through the windows — a dandy way of trolling the libs.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
  • He’s been booed at races and trolled on social media, leading him to delete the apps from his phone.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Sydney Sweeney may just be trolling us and giggling behind her hand.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Barges trolled the water looking for debris.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Our primary method is to troll small stickbaits upstream at very low speed.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
  • This is not the first time Newsom’s press office has trolled a politician.
    — Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 28 May 2026
  • The fleet plans to troll to find the fish at the likely spots, the fastest way to cover the widest span of water.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 June 2021
  • Padres employees trolled him on the video board, putting up a meme of Clayton in tears.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • After the game, Schlittler took to X to troll the Sox.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In regions where the jobs are scant, K12 has told tutors to troll around for clients.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The less exciting method is to just troll off the back of the boat, one sardine to a rod, one rod per angler.
    — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This felt almost like the Patriots begging for folks to troll them.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • Besmirch his name at small dinner parties, and troll him on Twitter.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Many of those species seem to prefer a Rapala trolled slowly behind a moving boat.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • No one knows how to troll Taylor Swift like Taylor Swift does.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025

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