How to Use troll in a Sentence
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Pretty much all of Lil Mabu’s songs are the same try-hard troll jobs.
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Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
12 Jan. 2024
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In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
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Keith Langston,
Peoplemag,
20 Oct. 2023
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Free tool to block online trolls and unique remote jobs.
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Kim Komando,
Fox News,
17 Dec. 2023
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So feel free to break out the selfie sticks and troll friends and relatives in other parts of the globe.
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Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2023
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Bud Light’s Fourth of July message was met by troll ahead of the weekend.
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Mark Heim | [email protected],
al,
2 July 2023
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Elon Musk has described Twitter Blue as a way to boost revenue and fend off trolls and bots.
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Minyvonne Burke,
NBC News,
22 July 2023
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Your kids will be singing and laughing along to the music of six different troll tribes.
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Carson Blackwelder,
Country Living,
24 June 2023
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The Russian trolls are still the same, but with mostly new actors playing them.
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Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
15 Feb. 2024
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Gobert is a Joe Rogan fan-kind of annoying guy, a bit of a troll, French and rich and over it all.
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Corbin Smith,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2023
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With a strong sense of self-love, Brittany didn’t let Internet trolls dim her light.
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Michelle Lee,
Peoplemag,
23 Feb. 2024
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Curry and Draymond Green watched from the sidelines but Green, ever the troll, waved his towel along with the crowd.
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Evan Barnes,
USA TODAY,
12 May 2022
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Online trolls have compared Hotez to Hitler and Stalin.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2023
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Fixing makeup on the troll, extending the green into her hair, that sort of thing.
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al,
22 June 2022
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Or is this all an elaborate troll from The Worldwide Leader in Sports™?
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Marlow Stern,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2023
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The council filed an amicus brief in support of the troll fishery.
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Julia O’Malley,
New York Times,
19 July 2023
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Colorado blades work best with a slower troll, such as under 2 miles per hour.
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D'arcy Egan,
cleveland,
2 Sep. 2022
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With his ready sense of humor, Morris serves as the resident troll.
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Debbie Arrington,
Sacramento Bee,
31 Jan. 2024
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Social media is filled with trolls who love to spew hatred of our city, often with a racist edge.
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Peter Jensen,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Jan. 2024
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In the movie, a group of fun-loving trolls who spend their days singing and dancing gets kidnapped by a race of giant and very grumpy ogres called Bergens.
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Keith Langston,
Peoplemag,
14 Nov. 2023
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Racist trolls were upset that a Black actor was cast as a character described in the books as a blonde white girl.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
20 Dec. 2023
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No need to give the trolls any more attention than necessary.
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Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
14 Aug. 2023
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In Jerry’s version, the troll and the goats find common ground and figure out how to live on the mountain together.
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New York Times,
21 Oct. 2021
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Oscar the Bird King, a troll sculpture by recycle artist Thomas Dambo.
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David Morgan,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2024
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But aside from the Kimmel spat, Santos has remained largely unfazed by the trolls.
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Paige Hagy,
Fortune,
20 Dec. 2023
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They can be taken on the troll, by casting live baits to sails spotted cruising in the swells, and even with topwater lures.
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Joe Cermele,
Field & Stream,
9 Nov. 2023
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Even the worst troll, the one who pummels you with criticism all day long and seems to have a grudge against society still has a soul and is still redeemable.
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John Brandon,
Forbes,
20 June 2022
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After his death, there was not a single troll on social media.
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Washington Post,
17 Aug. 2021
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While Bailey has had to deal with a fair share of racist trolls throughout the lead-up to the film’s premiere, first reactions have praised Bailey’s turn as Ariel.
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Anna Tingley,
Variety,
12 May 2023
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But the reality of freezing my eggs was me and my sweats, no bra on, belly out, feeling like a troll under the bridge.
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Stuart Miller,
Orange County Register,
30 Jan. 2024
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Some have expressed frustration with scam and troll accounts that buy a blue check, manipulating the system in order to end up at the top of other users’ replies.
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Clare Duffy,
CNN,
4 Apr. 2024
- They were trolling the ocean floor.
- She loves to troll flea markets looking for bargains.
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So to be trolled by those two is like a dream come true.
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Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2023
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The fleet plans to troll to find the fish at the likely spots, the fastest way to cover the widest span of water.
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Tom Stienstra,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 June 2021
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And the perfect time to troll your spouse, per this celeb couple?
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Iris Goldsztajn,
Marie Claire,
26 Aug. 2021
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The news comes after the rapper spent the weekend trolling his fans.
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Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
8 Jan. 2024
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To try to troll scalpers, some have bid up prices of the hardware with no intent to buy.
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Gordon Mah Ung,
PCWorld,
10 Dec. 2020
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Greene wants to troll Biden for the Chinese spy balloon.
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Tori Otten,
The New Republic,
7 Feb. 2023
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Butkus hasn't been shy about trolling the Packers, even with nephew Luke Butkus on the coaching staff.
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Jr Radcliffe,
Journal Sentinel,
28 Aug. 2023
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Not one to pass up on a good laugh, Sofía couldn't help but troll him about his looks from way back when.
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Adrianna Freedman,
Good Housekeeping,
7 July 2023
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Padres employees trolled him on the video board, putting up a meme of Clayton in tears.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 May 2023
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The less exciting method is to just troll off the back of the boat, one sardine to a rod, one rod per angler.
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Nate Matthews,
Field & Stream,
7 Dec. 2020
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The use of cedar plugs dates back more than 150 years, to the coast of France, where anglers trolled them for tuna on sailboats.
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Joe Cermele,
Field & Stream,
4 Jan. 2024
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He’s been booed at races and trolled on social media, leading him to delete the apps from his phone.
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Michelle R. Martinelli,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2023
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Some Texans, however, are using the site to troll the group.
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Sarah Martinez,
Chron,
2 Sep. 2021
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The 2016 Ghostbusters was trolled on ratings sites for its all-female cast.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
30 May 2023
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Which means trolling the Music Box website for tickets.
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Chicago Tribune Staff,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Aug. 2023
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Still, Zuckerberg has been trolling Musk in a curious way.
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Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
6 July 2023
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Sydney Sweeney may just be trolling us and giggling behind her hand.
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Nardine Saad,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Nov. 2023
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The account continues to be active months later as a way for Biden to troll Trump.
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Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo,
Quartz,
22 Mar. 2024
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Some of the offline efforts to troll Ms. Haley’s team have prompted a backlash.
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Ken Bensinger,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2024
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The top tactic has been to troll spoons behind 40 Jet Divers, running the diving planers about 40 feet behind the boat.
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D'arcy Egan,
cleveland,
3 June 2021
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Beckinsale has clapped back to people trolling her on Instagram in the past.
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Tommy McArdle,
Peoplemag,
25 Sep. 2023
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After setting out from the ramp in Clayton that afternoon, the two put out six lines and started trolling.
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Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
5 July 2023
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The Meta chief, who recently entertained a cage fight with Musk, then tweeted—for the first time in over a decade—to further troll Musk.
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Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
6 July 2023
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Sometimes they're used to troll the Cameo performers themselves.
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Shannon Bond,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2024
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Many of those species seem to prefer a Rapala trolled slowly behind a moving boat.
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Jordan Rodriguez,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2024
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Besmirch his name at small dinner parties, and troll him on Twitter.
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Joseph Goodman | [email protected],
al,
1 Dec. 2022
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Levy once trolled transit geeks by proposing, on a popular blog, that the station could be just a hole in the ground, with walkways over the platforms.
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William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2023
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President Biden is lapping Donald Trump in fundraising ― and trolling him about his debts.
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USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2024
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