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How to use the word vicariously in a Sentence?

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My campaign has released aone-sentence press release calling Donald Trump a' jagoff,' which is Western Pennsylvania for jerk, populism has adark side and Donald Trump is mining that for all it’s worth by saying reprehensible things about Muslims, about immigrants, about you name it. If you get to live vicariously through that and cheer Donald Trump on, Ido n’t expect to get your vote, and frankly, Ido n’t wantit.

United States

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A lot of people also living vicariously through her, being able to say, well someone said, 'I don't want this job, I got a better job. Take that!' she had a lot of options.

Tony Dokoupil

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The butchery in this case was beyond my ability to describe, to live through it vicariously through the photos and the tapes and the recordings ... must have taken a toll.

Judge Diane Gibbons

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We work long hours — 12 hours a day, six days a week. The gold matters to these guys and what you see is you see us toiling. It is a struggle, he said. People live vicariously through us because we go to some crazy places. there are millions of people that do this job and take it very seriously. It’s a good profession that has taken some hits. I am passionate about mining and mining in the correct way.

Discovery Channel star Dave Turin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It happens so often and it is a strange combination for me of feeling completely humbled by that and at the same time feeling very proud about that, he said. I was right in my choices of what I taught ; I was right in my choices of how I produced the show. one of the greatest compliments I would get is that ‘ Surivorman ’ is a show that the entire family would sit down to watch because the young boy scouts and girl scouts would be learning skills, he said. The men would live vicariously by putting themselves in my position, and the women will watch with their eyebrows raised. It really resonated across the whole demographic of the whole family.

Les Stroud

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Nothing happens in Russia that he doesn't approve of, therefore vicariously he's responsible.

Jerry Skinner

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

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14 years ago

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