Sample Sentences for
vicarious
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    Parents often take vicarious pleasure in the achievements of their children.
    vicarious = experienced through another person
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    He has been allotted a vicarious life—a life in which all experiences are at arm's length, all sensations secondhand.  (source)
    vicarious = experiencing life secondhand
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    It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim.  (source)
    vicarious = experienced secondhand (saw the victim rather than being the victim)
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    I felt a vicarious delight just being near the excitement.†  (source)
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    At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain — as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.  (source)
    vicariously = experienced through another person
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    Competitors for apartments, for schools, for the very air—all those hard-won and cherished animosities fell away for a few hours as they celebrated a rite of endurance and vicarious suffering.†  (source)
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    I'm living vicariously through the two of you, I hope you know.  (source)
    vicariously = in a manner where experience is gained or felt secondhand (through others)
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    Olive screamed and several of us flinched in vicarious pain as Horace dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes, loose change and train tickets spilling out of his pockets.†  (source)
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    "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."  (source)
    vicariously = experiencing life secondhand
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    When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.†  (source)
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    We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously.†  (source)
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    School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.†  (source)
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    She has the air of a professional guide for whom the ravishments of, say, Niagara Falls have become a commonplace, but who hopes to enjoy vicariously the raptures of visiting neophytes.†  (source)
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