How to Use dork in a Sentence

dork

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  • I look like a complete dork in these clothes.
  • Every day, Corbin and I got this electric response from the audience, which was just absolute joy and celebration for seeing these two hot dorks get together.
    — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — Abby Ohlheiser, Twin Cities, 18 July 2019
  • Instagram is this fun, dumb thing to be a little bit of a dork on and to kind of promote the movie.
    — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • What do these things make me, a geek, a nerd, a dweeb, a dork, or simply different?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2013
  • Turning down the popular guy for the dork that liked you before your makeover.
    — Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Kwofi is tall and muscular, while Stark's a movie dork that has to wear arch supports in his shoes.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 June 2020
  • And, one of Jack just kind of being a dork and wanting to show Lorde the funniest video ever.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 May 2017
  • To see this brand-new stretch of ocean, the deep-sea team is sending a craft full of high-tech touchscreens and a three-strong crew of joke-cracking dorks.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • However, much like the lovable dork that came before him, that doesn’t mean that he can’t be redeemed down the line.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Joe Namath was a hopeless dork-for-life compared with Brady’s cool in that moment.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • His style, with its healthy punch of dork factor, is of the now in a way that is similar to Post Malone’s very self-aware, disheveled, sleazy look.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Strangers stop and comment on its slick looking design, whereas many other e-bikes in this price range give off a dork vibe.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • After all, as Dilley might say, better to infect the people around you with a deadly virus than to risk looking like a dork.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 20 May 2020
  • The surviving twin, Will (the beautiful and hilarious Cole Allen), treats his dad like a dork.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Writing down the jokes can’t translate their onstage effectiveness as a litany of Dadaist dork humor, but here are a few: There’s a dead cat.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 28 Aug. 2018
  • When their story begins, Jeanette is your typical dork while Kate is living her best Cher Horowitz life.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Their onscreen chemistry is a balm to the millennial soul—the filthy comic, and the ultimate hipster dork of our teens and 20s, united.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The new currency — and, indeed, that day’s top offering — was a video of Thompson dancing like a dork in a Chinese nightclub.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The church choir, the writers’ workshop, her own kids, and her husband, Pat (played by Patrick Fugit as a genial, distracted dork), just aren’t raising her blood pressure enough.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Described as your dorky next door neighbor who grew up to be hot but couldn’t shake being a dork, Daniel is an investigator at Jax’s law firm.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Nov. 2021
  • A shy dork, put-upon but hopeful, Kay is the caretaker for her elderly mother.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Like Meta’s ersatz TikTok copycat, Reels, the platform could become a dupe for dorks, destined to fester in the shadow of its original.
    — WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • Initially wary of each other, the alpha dorks become best friends who leave all manner of hysterical chaos in their wake.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And she can’t be faulted for breaking character after being face to face with surprise guest Stewart, who donned a wig and braces to play a Grateful Dead loving dork.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • At a moment when we are stuck with a president who is solely a creature of celebrity culture, maybe a White House press corps made of anonymous dorks and dusty worker bees could be a breath of fresh air.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 30 June 2017
  • Unfortunately for the dorks like me — and maybe, perhaps, thankfully for everyone else — a thunderstorm on Tuesday night forced the SEC to cancel the show at the last minute.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • All three – nerd, dork, and geek – suggest social ineptitude.
    — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
  • The novel runs on that energy — heady, unembarrassed joy; the dork sublime — and, in particular, the high of finding a kindred spirit.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Erskine played Maya with an alpha dork's tense confidence, always unsure if people were laughing at her or with her.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021

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