How to Use knucklehead in a Sentence

knucklehead

noun
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  • Don't be such a knucklehead.
  • I'd like to get my hands on the knucklehead who designed that paper-towel dispenser.
  • Right, Curry got hot and the Celtics played some knucklehead ball.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • Don has a long, long fuse, but the neighborhood knucklehead wants to light it.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Bikers, don’t be knuckleheads; ride single file and stay in the bike lane.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 17 May 2017
  • Tell those knuckleheads to stop passing a football near the grill.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • And there’s a loud knucklehead demanding to be seen now.
    — Jay Baruch, STAT, 21 Apr. 2020
  • So look for Epstein to stay the course, though a few more knuckleheads probably wouldn't hurt.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • That my son and his knucklehead friends collapse with laughter at Menery’s sports clips gives me traces of hope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Lon Elmer, Seattle, Washington Pyne was a bully and a knucklehead on the air, but there was something that made me watch him for the laughs.
    — Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
  • Lon Elmer, Seattle, Washington Pyne was a bully and a knucklehead on the air, but there was something that made me watch him for the laughs.
    — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • Sure enough, from the very start that night, those same two knuckleheads started yelling, ‘Give us Bumgarner!
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • All coaches run into some knucklehead who wants to run up the score and embarrass you.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • No one thought that these two knuckleheads would start fighting for real.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • This is mainly so those knuckleheads don't bother you for 24-48 hours.
    — Patrick Varone, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2015
  • Poverty, a childhood spent in trailers, and knucklehead friends are all part of the campy atmosphere.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Yes, even a knucklehead like me can grasp the football logic of how Elway is going about his business.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2020
  • If Lock isn’t the No. 2 quarterback on opening night, John Elway was a knucklehead for drafting him in the second round.
    — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
  • Some of the casting is oddball, as with Brendan Fraser’s impish take on a mob knucklehead.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
  • The knucklehead convention got so bad, the bridge — which cost nearly $600 million and took several years to build — was closed three nights in a row over the weekend.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • James does everything – e-e-e-verything – in Game 1, only to have a knucklehead teammate not know the score at the most important time.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2018
  • The risk being that some knucklehead federal officer will see us and smirk at us, and steal that one last thing that belongs only to us.
    — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Grocery stores are adapting to male shoppers — and treating them like knuckleheads.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
  • Bauman is desperate to go back to being a knucklehead with his buddies.
    — A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
  • He was fatally shot for his efforts by a gun-toting knucklehead who will likely face a lengthy prison term for needlessly taking the life of a very good man.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Even a knucklehead like me understands why bubble math doesn’t compute for football.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 18 June 2020
  • Yet any knucklehead could have seen that cornerback, linebacker and receiver looked like a reasonable match of needs with the first three picks in this draft, and the Browns went cornerback, linebacker, receiver.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 May 2021
  • There’s all sorts of antifa, ranging from those who valiantly protected pastors and rabbis in Charlottesville to knuckleheads who get a thrill from throwing a rock at Starbucks.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • If a car's cameras and accelerometers detect someone leaning on the car, for example, the car's center screen will display, in font big enough for the knucklehead to see, a message that cameras are recording.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2019
  • But one knucklehead mistake at the wrong time could have easily prevented any of that — plus numerous other things — from happening.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2023

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