How to Use misfit in a Sentence

misfit

noun
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  • Torts’s turn to wring the marrow out of a team of misfit toys.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The rest of the team was put together like the land of misfit toys.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
  • Maybe that’s because all the misfit toys find homes, even the doll who seems just fine to me.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2020
  • So what future do our beloved space misfits have, if any, in the MCU?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 May 2023
  • If there is really a land of the misfit toys, this is it.
    — John General, CNN, 30 Jan. 2021
  • But Rudolph, Santa, the sleigh and the misfit toys will cost a pretty penny.
    — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The adorable movie featuring the island of misfit toys and Herbie the elf hit the airwaves (and our hearts) in 1964.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
  • As celebrity memoirs go, Sharon Stone's is a bit of a misfit.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Elwin is Mistle, a member of The Rats, who are a gang of misfit teenagers who steal from the rich and give to themselves.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
  • All the while, the band of misfit traders continued laughing — all the way to their digital banks.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • But with a new film comes new threats, including one that even the smartest of this band of misfits couldn't see coming a mile away.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 13 May 2023
  • Elwin is Mistle — a member of The Rats, who are a gang of misfit teenagers who steal from the rich and give to themselves…and sometimes the poor.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But as the former students of Horace Green share, Black and his band of classroom misfits still have a lot to teach us.
    — Luke Ottenhof, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Gillian Jacobs is best known for playing messy, free-wheeling misfits with hearts of gold.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Have your little ones grab all of their misfit crayons, soak them in warm water, and then place them in a bunny muffin tin.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Her younger brother Perry is a high-I.Q. misfit and drug dealer.
    — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This prequel series instead follows four teenage misfits who go on to create the bright-hued clique, the Pink Ladies.
    — New, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The network has instead built itself up as an island of misfit toys.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • This was the very first Christmas song performed on Glee — a fitting start given that the choir room is their very own island of misfit toys.
    — Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Now, Snyder is adding to his canon of large-scale sci-fi with Rebel Moon, a galaxy-spanning space opera about a band of misfit outlaws.
    — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Through his eyes, the world of Blade Runner becomes a journey through the land of misfit toys, a place humans once sought to control but have lost their grip on.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Jackson Lamb’s island of misfit spies is the best place on television.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Fela was a social and cultural misfit during the prime years of his career.
    — Sanya Osha, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The misfit superheroes of Doom Patrol are in a weird place as season 4 begins.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The clock is ticking on all those misfit empty-box SPACs, and yet the money continues to flow into the creation of new ones.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • This is a darkly comic story about a misfit who finds meaning in a mundane job.
    — Suryatapa Bhattacharya, WSJ, 5 May 2021
  • Rounding out the cast are a handful of misfit, musical-theater-loving teens who all seem to have a crush on the wrong person.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Noah’s journal entries and letters to Mothman will help young misfits feel less alone.
    — Renata Sancken, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This page-turning space adventure follows the crew of the Argus, a ship of misfit soldiers standing watch for an alien threat at the very edge of the universe.
    — Sadie Gennis, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • How much of a rebel misfit is Julia, whose family comes from Guadeloupe?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 May 2022

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