How to Use bloke in a Sentence

bloke

noun
Definition of blokenext
Synonyms for blokenext
  • An evening spent with these blokes will take you beyond the stars.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2017
  • But Jamie Dornan was so cute and such a down-to-earth bloke.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The origin of the painting was a Titian of a bloke playing an organ and a nude woman.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Now, Gates is one of those rich blokes who believes his kind should pay more in taxes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn’t spilling a drop.
    — Kalin Kipling, sacbee.com, 4 June 2017
  • People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn't spilling a drop.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • Jauregui is bitten by the fangs of love when one handsome bloke in a spiked jacket brings her whole world to a halt.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Their friendship, during the band and afterward, was joke-y and bloke-y.
    — Jancee Dunn, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • For a lager-swilling bloke like Charlie, the proposition is as alien as going to the pub in a tutu.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
  • So, all of a sudden, having a bloke around is unusual — even now.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • Hold on, the bloke who stands by the goal and has never had any impact on any football match ever has something to say!
    — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Of course, her new boss (Adam Demos) is a mysterious, rugged bloke and sparks fly – as does liquefied sheep poo.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • But here there is only one useless bloke on the sidelines named Claude (Richard Armitage), the informant who put Debbie in jail.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 June 2018
  • Sam Groth Final tip of the backwards cap for one of tennis’ good blokes, playing in his final tournament.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • One of these comics uses a drink to perform feminine swagger, the other bloke-at-the-bar thoughtfulness.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • Timmy bought it for me.’ For the young blokes to have that humility from a legend is phenomenal.
    — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Flipping past the guy with the world’s longest fingernails and the heaviest house cat ever, Galvin saw a photo of a bloke bog snorkeling and had an epiphany.
    — Sol Neelman, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2012
  • The size of the hypocrisy in these stupidly put together 'hot takes', particularly from blokes who spout this sort of BS, makes Mount Everest look like a speedbump.
    — SI.com, 12 June 2019
  • Idles, a quintet of grizzled-looking blokes from Bristol, England, hurled songs like lifelines.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Anyway, that was good, and then there was that France game, with the bloke who dislocated his shoelace and that United player with an ever changing haircut.
    — SI.com, 20 June 2018
  • James Fairchild is effective as Don, the bigoted bloke who learns acceptance.
    — nola.com, 15 June 2019
  • What’s the deal with the sinister-looking bloke who periodically shows up in a car outside her house?
    — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • In a typical fringe event, bald blokes outnumbered women.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The irony of France defeating another bloke named Harry, on a different pitch last weekend, is not lost on either side of the English Channel.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, let’s face it, Facebook has much more compelling content that two blokes talking to each other via webcam.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
  • Last ditch challenges and fearless, goal-denying blokes are Adrian Mariappa’s bread and butter.
    — SI.com, 7 May 2018
  • Harry Styles has a nice turn as a surly bloke ready to throw a French interloper overboard from a sinking ship—shades of Brexit indeed, though cooler heads prevail and the Frenchman is spared.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 25 July 2017
  • All the blokes are coping with romantic dysfunctions and other regrets.
    — Bob Strauss, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Plaintive, breathless, and more than a little disappointed by the shabbiness of the place, Fagan is a nonthreatening figure, the sort of bloke who might wheedle a free pint in a Clerkenwell pub.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020

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