How to Use sad sack in a Sentence
sad sack
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Then came a loss to the Habs and another to the sad sack Dead Wings.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
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Jones plays Lance, a bit of a sad sack whose wife left him for a more macho lunk-head.
—Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2018
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And unlike these five sad sack losers, the Beavers didn’t have to take a plane ride home to compound the misery.
—oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2019
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The series portrays Paul as both an earnest guy with a good heart, as well as a naïve and gullible sad sack who is the butt of the joke.
—John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
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Over the course of the series, Guillermo has transitioned from sad sack to badass.
—Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
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Only sad sacks and lunaediesophobes think Monday is the worst day of the week.
—Jason Kehe, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
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But the carrier that shadows your commute, and parks by your desk, needn’t be a sad sack.
—Jamie Waters, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
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In the movie, sad sack Miles, played by actor Paul Giamatti, rages briefly against the grape.
—Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 2 Nov. 2017
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Welcome back, to fans and sad sack wasp traps alike, to the craven death pit of greed and egomania that is Succession.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
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Tannhäuser, no longer louche but styled with a shaved head and dressed in baggy black, comes across as a sad sack hanging out at the piano.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
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Archiving the past is melancholic by nature, but Schloss was no sad sack.
—Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
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Then entered the night ranked 28th overall in the league for 5-on-5 scoring, only better than the likes of Nashville, Dallas and the sad sack Sabres.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
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To help give your sad sack lunch an indoor picnic flair, swap out your paper napkins for ones of cloth.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2018
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Blackwater makes Larry a compelling mix of self-loathing sad sack and volcanic fury about to erupt.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
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On Wall Street, Twitter was the latest sad sack tech stock to impress with fourth quarter earnings.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
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One brother, George (Plemons), is a kindly sad sack who wants nothing more than to find a wife and settle down.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
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The character is a variation on what Odenkirk plays so well, a charismatic sad sack kicked in the shins by life one too many times.
—Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
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Jo sees her best friend being an absolute sad sack and decides to do something about it.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
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Stan is merely the sad sack who can’t stay away, shakily throwing coins into the peep show machine to see her once again.
—refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
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Feeling like a sad sack of coal during the holidays is far from unusual.
—New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
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His playful, sad sack persona was in direct contrast to some of the harder core hip hop that had become popular in the late 1980s.
—Lisa Respers France and Andy Rose, CNN, 16 July 2021
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For a Hall of Fame pass-rusher who has been properly honored for his accomplishments, this was one sad sack of a move.
—Gene Frenette, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
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Hilary is something of a classic character: a sad sack.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
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Shawn Kilgore is Charlie, and mixes the sad sack’s despair with a spark of optimism.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2019
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His middle-aged version of Alex is a bit of a sad sack, which isn’t exactly a stretch for the actor, who is familiar with the character type from SNL.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
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Throw these fragile sad sacks in the recycling bin (or save them for upcoming bad-weather days) and replace them with this year’s models!
—Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
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Outie Mark is such a glum sad sack that nonwork scenes tend to drag even after he gets involved with people who claim to have found a way to undo the severance process.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
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Another that dealt with a meme factory ended up making Ralph (who in the sequence took all sorts of abuse in order to make people laugh) feel like too much of a sad sack.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
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The truth is that Dermott and Hank are half-brothers by way of Doc being … well, an even more nauseating sad sack than previously thought.
—Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
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Paul Matthews is a fiercely memorable loser, a sad sack who bristles with recognizably Cageian energy.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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