How to Use dolt in a Sentence

dolt

noun
  • What a dolt I've been!
  • Some of his classmates had scrawled messages portraying him as a dolt.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2010
  • The temptation is to think dolts at the Pentagon don’t care enough to outfit troops with modern gear.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
  • Even the most cynical members of the federal government failed to arrange a useful role for such a dolt.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But in the wake of Charlottesville, only a dolt would believe that explanation.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Our intolerable situation forces us to welcome such witless dolts to our side.
    — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The thing is, a person using their horn in this aggressive manner is seemingly saying that the other driver is a complete dolt.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Woke scolds and anti-woke dolts alike objected to the image of Carpenter kneeling in front of a man who appears to be using her hair as a leash.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The fact that leftist dolts oppose military spending in America is ironic in the extreme.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt.
    — Bhumika Tharoor, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The dolt to your right has essentially forced you into doing this, due to their careless parking and not having obeyed the rule to always park in the center of a parking spot.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • His horrifying misrule convinced even die-hard autocrats that the country could not survive with an incompetent dolt at the apex of power.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Some dolt might decide to try and ram the cicada or take driving actions to avoid running into them, doing so at the peril of other nearby drivers and pedestrians.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Izzard plays Bertie as a dolt and a reactionary boob, in line with the movie’s opinion of anti-immigrant sentiment in present-day Europe.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Be prepared for an even more authoritarian decent when the curtain is pulled back on this totally unwizardly dolt and his klan of dangerous fools.
    — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • So a lot of the counterintelligence training that's given to the troops, the officers, the defense contractors, a lot of it is kind of like, don't be naive, don't be a dolt, in short.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The ongoing melodrama has revealed Greg Norman to be a dolt and Phil Mickelson a bumbler.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 June 2022
  • My three-year-old understands on-demand, streaming, but Alabama’s Secretary of State is still flipping channels like a dolt?
    — al.com, 24 July 2019
  • After all, those sipping the tea were wealthy and thus successful, while the dolts reading think tank reports were just bureaucrats, one Administration official groused.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Democratic National Committee boss Tom Perez is a profane dolt and the party seems to care only about regaining power.
    — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Social media posts have characterized the play’s critics as literary dolts and supporters as liberals without morals who advocate violence against the president.
    — Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2017
  • Kirk Schulz, the Washington State president and a chemical engineer, can’t be thrilled that his university is now synonymous with an anti-vaxxer dolt.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
  • When Lukashenko first rose to power in 1994, the budding autocrat was perceived as little more than a dolt, an empty suit, a pig farmer who few in Minsk’s political ranks took seriously.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Never forget that conventional wisdom in 1981 regarded Reagan as a Hollywood dolt.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Cyrano's desolation is tempered by a begrudging affection for Christian, who is just tongue-tied enough to be endearing without being an entirely hopeless dolt in Jenner's appealing performance.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019
  • That tension is central to the third season, in which Harington’s Sir Henry Muck—an old-money dolt with a hilariously accurate name who is a perpetual disappointment to his family—enlists the bank to help launch a green-energy company.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But Joel and Ethan invest in other characters’ stories more — specifically, Josh Brolin’s conflicted fixer and Alden Ehrenreich’s anxious young actor — leaving Clooney to ham it up pleasantly as a forgettable dolt.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024

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