How to Use dork in a Sentence

dork

noun
  • I look like a complete dork in these clothes.
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — Abby Ohlheiser, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — Abby Ohlheiser, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Instagram is this fun, dumb thing to be a little bit of a dork on and to kind of promote the movie.
    — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • What do these things make me, a geek, a nerd, a dweeb, a dork, or simply different?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2013
  • Turning down the popular guy for the dork that liked you before your makeover.
    — Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Kwofi is tall and muscular, while Stark's a movie dork that has to wear arch supports in his shoes.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 June 2020
  • And, one of Jack just kind of being a dork and wanting to show Lorde the funniest video ever.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 May 2017
  • The comedian likens it to kids at the cool table calling her a dork.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • To see this brand-new stretch of ocean, the deep-sea team is sending a craft full of high-tech touchscreens and a three-strong crew of joke-cracking dorks.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • However, much like the lovable dork that came before him, that doesn’t mean that he can’t be redeemed down the line.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Joe Namath was a hopeless dork-for-life compared with Brady’s cool in that moment.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • His style, with its healthy punch of dork factor, is of the now in a way that is similar to Post Malone’s very self-aware, disheveled, sleazy look.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Strangers stop and comment on its slick looking design, whereas many other e-bikes in this price range give off a dork vibe.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • After all, as Dilley might say, better to infect the people around you with a deadly virus than to risk looking like a dork.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 20 May 2020
  • The surviving twin, Will (the beautiful and hilarious Cole Allen), treats his dad like a dork.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Writing down the jokes can’t translate their onstage effectiveness as a litany of Dadaist dork humor, but here are a few: There’s a dead cat.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 28 Aug. 2018
  • When their story begins, Jeanette is your typical dork while Kate is living her best Cher Horowitz life.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Their onscreen chemistry is a balm to the millennial soul—the filthy comic, and the ultimate hipster dork of our teens and 20s, united.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The new currency — and, indeed, that day’s top offering — was a video of Thompson dancing like a dork in a Chinese nightclub.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The church choir, the writers’ workshop, her own kids, and her husband, Pat (played by Patrick Fugit as a genial, distracted dork), just aren’t raising her blood pressure enough.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Described as your dorky next door neighbor who grew up to be hot but couldn’t shake being a dork, Daniel is an investigator at Jax’s law firm.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
  • A shy dork, put-upon but hopeful, Kay is the caretaker for her elderly mother.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • In the film, Dion comes across as a true show-biz dork, the musical equivalent of a book lover who will read absolutely anything, down to the label on a shampoo bottle.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024

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