How to Use weirdo in a Sentence

weirdo

noun
  • The weirdos are the best part of this and, frankly, every movie.
    Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
  • The people who don’t comfort eat, those are the weirdos.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • True to noir form, it’s pumped up on twists, weirdos and bloodshed.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Your children might look at you and think, hmm, weirdo.
    Samantha Hunt, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • This is a great night for weirdos, says John Waters, who would know.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Some weirdness will persist—and yet the weirdos will be gone.
    Sheon Han, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • So no, don’t get your hopes up for a Kane & Lynch sequel, weirdos.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 18 Jan. 2019
  • The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • These decaf weirdos have lost sight of the true purpose of coffee.
    Jim Gaffigan, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • For the weirdos and misfits celebrating the creepiest night of the year.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Plus this lovely weirdo spent four weeks at the number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The Westside Pavilion gave me my first chance to up my weirdo status.
    Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Wow, what performance art, this guy is a weirdo or wacko,’ hey, that’s fine, too.
    Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 25 May 2018
  • Chad’s [Hugo, Pharrell’s partner in the Neptunes] a weirdo.
    Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In the last, Adrien, to that point a weirdo outcast, is invited in on the camaraderie.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • True, Bolton was a vocal supporter of the Iraq War, but that hardly makes him a weirdo.
    chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • And these weirdos right here supported me in doing that.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, the mouse-deer is a bit of a weirdo, but that’s not why biologists were shocked to see one on a trail camera.
    Melissa Locker, Smithsonian, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Some of our kids are mini weirdos — adorable, yes, but also quirky and offbeat as hell.
    Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Neither of these weirdos are destined to be blockbusters.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Cash’s foray into weirdo fashion has been a long time in the making.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Weirdest Dinosaurs Here are a few of the preeminent weirdos: 1.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • Famous weirdos: Bronies (Warning: Please don’t Google this.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The other queens perceived her as a weirdo and bullied her a bit for not being a glamazon pageant queen.
    Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Such figures are often weirdos—though perhaps that’s too strong a word.
    Scott Borchert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Long live the weirdo 76ers, forever in the midst of their roster’s reinvention.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 July 2019
  • The Archie comics serve as more of a skin: The perfect small town, the jock, the girl next door, the intelligent weirdo, the mysterious new girl in town.
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Paul is a weirdo with beady serial-killer eyes and a lengthy criminal record.
    Sarah Hagi, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
  • It’s kind of this universal story of a weirdo growing up.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • My desire to fit in is twice as strong, as Leo’s counting on me not to be a weirdo and to get butts in seats for his next birthday party.
    Beth Spotswood, SFChronicle.com, 19 Feb. 2020

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