Sample sentences for VICARIOUS

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Definition

experienced secondhand

The book is full of romance and vicarious thrills.
Experience is the most valuable commodity, and she who gains it vicariously, is wisest.
It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
London, Jack -- The Call of the Wild
I'm living vicariously through the two of you, I hope you know.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

vicariously = in a manner where experience is gained or felt secondhand (through others)

"But sometimes," he said, "I can't help but think that you live vicariously through his antics, and I must say that it hurts me."
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

vicariously = experiencing life secondhand

It could even have been sent by someone who got some sort of vicarious thrill by making lonely women cry on distant beaches.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle

vicarious = experienced secondhand

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride

vicarious = experienced secondhand

When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
vicarious menstruation
Had the poor boy suddenly gone mad, or was this vicarious farewell a part of the courtship of Devil's Ford?
Harte, Bret -- Devil's Ford
vicarious atonement
read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement
Whenever I fidgeted or complained, she reminded me that she didn't have any memories of being human, and asked me not to ruin her vicarious fun.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
I felt as if I were slipping into a holiday mood, embarked on another vicarious moral adventure, which looked as though it would be painless.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
And Ed had lived vicariously through Harlon's exploits on the football field.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
So Eppie was reared without punishment, the burden of her misdeeds being borne vicariously by father Silas.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
He doesn't want vicarious satisfaction.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

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