How to Use vicarious in a Sentence

vicarious

adjective

• In a series of posts, the pair gave us a vicarious tour through the iconic city.
  — Emily Wang, Glamour, 23 July 2018
• There's a bit of vicarious living going on there in the songs.
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2017
• The process goes smoothly enough, but this vicarious thrill reels out of control in a hurry.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
• Here are nine movies about the vicarious thrill of victory and the secondhand agony of defeat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• For Austin and perhaps others, the thrill will soon not be vicarious.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016
• Such vicarious voyages through the past and present of classical music from the comfort of your couch may be no match for the real thing.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• Getting lost in a romance novel gave her the vicarious thrill of falling in love without having to talk to or touch anyone.
  — Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019
• Research shows that the effect of vicarious grief is strongest when a person identifies with the victims.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Call it cyber-vicarious — scary fast and almost as good as being there.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2022
• The novel can be read as a stirring meditation on grief or a vicarious confrontation with the joys and risks of motherhood.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The vicarious thrill of veering into the unreasonable, of making a scene.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 20 July 2017
• Setting her apart from others in the group was an idiosyncratic rather than a vicarious motive for rising to the bait of a bedazzling newness.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Even for teens who aren’t already living with mental health strains, vicarious trauma can take a toll.
  — Claire Lampen, Teen Vogue, 24 May 2018
• Summer is a time for adventures both real and vicarious.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 24 May 2019
• Sport lifts people with a feeling of vicarious striving for perfection even when their team loses.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Owens seemed to understand that the fundamental appeal of the book lay not in its stated moral mission but in the vicarious thrill of an adventure story.
  — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
• Late Friday night those feelings were no longer vicarious.
  — Chris Hays, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Her travels are bold and sociable, and our vicarious pleasure.
  — Mark Kramer, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• One of the perks of the job, Goucher told me, was getting a vicarious thrill of being close to the action of elite-level competition.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 3 Nov. 2021
• Third, the right to bring a defamation case should be limited to the person who claims injury; suits should not be available to anyone who takes vicarious offence.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• So, there is pleasure to be had from these vicarious visits to Dodge, but are there any other benefits?
  — Mathias Clasen, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
• The temptation for a vicarious do-over is immense, and so are the stage-mom rationalizations.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2016
• What is most compelling is the vicarious sense of judgments made on the fly, according to the standard that shapes any art scene not distorted by marketing: the esteem of peers.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• The Game both understand this in their own way, modeling the vicarious pity and guilty delight that comes from watching events unfold in slasher films.
  — Wired, 10 July 2022
• Where does the conscious seeking out of misery fit into a framework of thrill-seeking through vicarious experiences of gore and terror?
  — Time, 28 Oct. 2022
• As of late, an adorable and sometimes shocking and hilarious trend has given people the giggles and vicarious thrills of becoming a new pet parent.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
• Everyone was having vicarious fun through us because we were allowed to shed a light on the absurdity of this situation.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• Forty-seven years after that vicarious connection, Dobbins met Tyler face to face for the first time last month.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Essential to that experience is getting swept up in the vicarious thrill of an unfamiliar team and its mundane drama.
  — Calum Marsh, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• And so my own adventures into the Garhwal became vicarious.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024