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
  • Beards were not signs of virility but of disorder.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • It is also said to restore virility and regrow hair.
    — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
  • But Zima was typecast as a girly drink, with all the virility of a white wine cooler.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The able-bodied white male stood for the virility of the New Deal nation-state.
    — John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There’s even a dish called pangolin fetus soup, believed to enhance a man’s virility.
    — Rachael Bale, National Geographic, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Both men wanted war; both embraced it as a test of virility against a decadent enemy.
    — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 29 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
  • 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
  • Jens snorts angrily; the frost has deprived him of his virility and transformed him into a helpless old man.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Those same mice returned to normal levels of virility four to six weeks after treatments ended.
    — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2022
  • These were not men like Elon Musk fretting about virility as some bulwark against extinction.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
  • 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
  • How devoid of shame this ostentatious display of virility, how lacking in grace.
    — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • And the working women clearly recognize the virility of him.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Male sexuality and virility is a point of pride for the Fox News father.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
  • 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
  • But Commerce is more than just bragging about the virility of American business.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • This can fuel a return to regressive ideals of masculinity and virility.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 6 July 2026
  • This fragrance is the perfect selection for the man of status, maturity and virility.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Since its virility, videos featuring the trend have now come with a warning for those attempting the moves at home — but that didn't deter the Deckers.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • While waterfowl like ducks can proudly strut their stuff, the rooster—that emblem of virility—probably keeps a towel wrapped firmly around his waist.
    — Carrie Arnold, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2013
  • In China, they’ve been coveted as a source of potency and virility for 600 years.
    — National Geographic, 3 July 2016
  • 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
  • People like him lived in the shadows of stories, stuffed into the spaces between lines chronicling virility, power.
    — Abhijith Ravinutala, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • There’s a taboo quality to the breach of natural laws separating humans and big cats that implies strength, virility, and power.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020

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