How to Use troll in a Sentence

troll

1 of 2 noun

• Pretty much all of Lil Mabu’s songs are the same try-hard troll jobs.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2024
• In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Free tool to block online trolls and unique remote jobs.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2023
• So feel free to break out the selfie sticks and troll friends and relatives in other parts of the globe.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Bud Light’s Fourth of July message was met by troll ahead of the weekend.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 2 July 2023
• Elon Musk has described Twitter Blue as a way to boost revenue and fend off trolls and bots.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 July 2023
• Your kids will be singing and laughing along to the music of six different troll tribes.
  — Carson Blackwelder, Country Living, 24 June 2023
• The Russian trolls are still the same, but with mostly new actors playing them.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Gobert is a Joe Rogan fan-kind of annoying guy, a bit of a troll, French and rich and over it all.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• With a strong sense of self-love, Brittany didn’t let Internet trolls dim her light.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• Curry and Draymond Green watched from the sidelines but Green, ever the troll, waved his towel along with the crowd.
  — Evan Barnes, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• Online trolls have compared Hotez to Hitler and Stalin.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Fixing makeup on the troll, extending the green into her hair, that sort of thing.
  — al, 22 June 2022
• Or is this all an elaborate troll from The Worldwide Leader in Sports™?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• The council filed an amicus brief in support of the troll fishery.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Colorado blades work best with a slower troll, such as under 2 miles per hour.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• With his ready sense of humor, Morris serves as the resident troll.
  — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Social media is filled with trolls who love to spew hatred of our city, often with a racist edge.
  — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
• 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.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• Racist trolls were upset that a Black actor was cast as a character described in the books as a blonde white girl.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• No need to give the trolls any more attention than necessary.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
• In Jerry’s version, the troll and the goats find common ground and figure out how to live on the mountain together.
  — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• Oscar the Bird King, a troll sculpture by recycle artist Thomas Dambo.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
• But aside from the Kimmel spat, Santos has remained largely unfazed by the trolls.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• They can be taken on the troll, by casting live baits to sails spotted cruising in the swells, and even with topwater lures.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• 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.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• After his death, there was not a single troll on social media.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• 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.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 May 2023
• But the reality of freezing my eggs was me and my sweats, no bra on, belly out, feeling like a troll under the bridge.
  — Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 30 Jan. 2024
• The community has deep concerns about the health of king salmon, but the troll fishery targeted in the lawsuit over orcas is the least of them.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023

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troll

2 of 2 verb

• They were trolling the ocean floor.
• She loves to troll flea markets looking for bargains.
• So to be trolled by those two is like a dream come true.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
• The fleet plans to troll to find the fish at the likely spots, the fastest way to cover the widest span of water.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 June 2021
• And the perfect time to troll your spouse, per this celeb couple?
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 26 Aug. 2021
• The news comes after the rapper spent the weekend trolling his fans.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
• To try to troll scalpers, some have bid up prices of the hardware with no intent to buy.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 10 Dec. 2020
• Greene wants to troll Biden for the Chinese spy balloon.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• Butkus hasn't been shy about trolling the Packers, even with nephew Luke Butkus on the coaching staff.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
• Not one to pass up on a good laugh, Sofía couldn't help but troll him about his looks from way back when.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2023
• Padres employees trolled him on the video board, putting up a meme of Clayton in tears.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• The less exciting method is to just troll off the back of the boat, one sardine to a rod, one rod per angler.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• The use of cedar plugs dates back more than 150 years, to the coast of France, where anglers trolled them for tuna on sailboats.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• He’s been booed at races and trolled on social media, leading him to delete the apps from his phone.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Some Texans, however, are using the site to troll the group.
  — Sarah Martinez, Chron, 2 Sep. 2021
• The 2016 Ghostbusters was trolled on ratings sites for its all-female cast.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 30 May 2023
• Which means trolling the Music Box website for tickets.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Still, Zuckerberg has been trolling Musk in a curious way.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
• Sydney Sweeney may just be trolling us and giggling behind her hand.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The account continues to be active months later as a way for Biden to troll Trump.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
• Some of the offline efforts to troll Ms. Haley’s team have prompted a backlash.
  — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• The top tactic has been to troll spoons behind 40 Jet Divers, running the diving planers about 40 feet behind the boat.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 3 June 2021
• Beckinsale has clapped back to people trolling her on Instagram in the past.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• After setting out from the ramp in Clayton that afternoon, the two put out six lines and started trolling.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 5 July 2023
• 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.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• Sometimes they're used to troll the Cameo performers themselves.
  — Shannon Bond, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
• Many of those species seem to prefer a Rapala trolled slowly behind a moving boat.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Besmirch his name at small dinner parties, and troll him on Twitter.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2022
• 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.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024