How do you use Troll in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sing or angle, plus the exact meaning.
Troll in a sentence
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Troll meaning
- a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- An ugly or unpleasant person.
- An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
Synonyms of Troll
Using Troll
- The main meaning on this page is: a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. | An ugly or unpleasant person. | An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
- Useful related words include: mythical monster, sing, angle, roll.
- In the example corpus, troll often appears in combinations such as: the troll, to troll, troll who.
Context around Troll
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 14 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Troll
- In this selection, "troll" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, patent, reservoirs, unrelated, east, post and west stand out and add context to how "troll" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a patent troll they will and a small troll from scandinavia. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "troll" sits close to words such as amusing, archaic and blink, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with troll
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Forum users will usually not give the troll acknowledgement; that just "feeds the troll". (14 words)
Glasgow presenter Storm Huntley has called out a troll for commenting on her body. (14 words)
He posted a troll post so I posted a semi-unrelated, troll post in kind. (15 words)
Ashwin previously had responded with fixing jibe earlier this year when Herschelle Gibbs tried to troll him over a brand endorsement and his running skills, while he gave a fitting answer to a Twitter troll who asked him to ‘learn from Moeen Ali’. (43 words)
Their success at the former depends on how well they and the troll understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group. (40 words)
Members agree that if and only if a member’s assets fall into the hands of a patent troll, they will grant a license to all other members — thus rendering them immune from patent troll litigation using those assets. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
The field consists of two reservoirs, Troll West and Troll East, with gas from Troll East produced on the Troll A platform and piped to the Kollnes terminal.
A definite article was realised as a suffix, that retained an independent declension e.g. troll (a troll) – trollit (the troll), hǫll ( a hall) – hǫllin (the hall), armr (an arm) – armrinn (the arm).
After the phrase first emerged from 4chan, a site on which trolling is celebrated, Tucker Carlson defended it, characteristically suggesting that the racial division was being fomented by those who understood the troll as a troll.
He posted a troll post so I posted a semi-unrelated, troll post in kind.
Escaping a manhunt, Peer meets the Green Woman, the Troll King’s daughter, who offers him her hand and a kingdom if he becomes a troll.
Members agree that if and only if a member’s assets fall into the hands of a patent troll, they will grant a license to all other members — thus rendering them immune from patent troll litigation using those assets.
Taking to her official Instagram page to reply the troll, she described the troll’s head as one that is as long as Nigeria’s problems.
Apolodorus, why don’t you just admit that you are a bigot who believes that anyone who doesn’t agree with your ideology is a troll and of course you yourself can’t possibly be a troll.
Ashwin previously had responded with fixing jibe earlier this year when Herschelle Gibbs tried to troll him over a brand endorsement and his running skills, while he gave a fitting answer to a Twitter troll who asked him to ‘learn from Moeen Ali’.
There was another big spike in the summer of 2017, when the Internet Research Agency appeared to have shifted its focus to a specific type of troll — one the researchers call the “Right Troll” — that mimicked stereotypical Trump supporters.
The troll made the comment on the video of the actress who donned a gold outfit, which showed off a glimpse of her side boobs… after her comment, the actress also, using a relatable example, schooled the troll.
Well the actress did react to the troll but stared up a savage statement from the troll who recommended an urgent lobotomy for the actress.
Forum users will usually not give the troll acknowledgement; that just "feeds the troll".
Their success at the former depends on how well they and the troll understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.
Troll clans often raid one another, and a significant subset of the troll race are crystal raiders, which command many of the airships of Barsaive.
A meteorologist has branded an easterly weather front as a "small troll" from Scandinavia which will bring temperatures plummeting, and snow to the UK, in days.
Assuming and being confused that it's the businessman acting in the recent release, the internet started to troll the scene.
But Kyle decided to respond to one troll who made the claim and noted the "This is not true.
Carmen is the sixth discovery for DNO in the Troll-Gjoa area since 2021, following the Rover Nord discoveries, Kveikje, Heisenberg and Ofelia, as you can see on the map to the right.
Glasgow presenter Storm Huntley has called out a troll for commenting on her body.
Common combinations with troll
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the troll 38×
- to troll 29×
- troll who 13×
- troll the 10×
- internet troll 8×
- troll farm 7×
- troll and 5×
- troll is 5×
- troll farms 5×
- and troll 4×