How to Use needy in a Sentence

needy

adjective

• As a child, she was extremely needy and had no self-confidence.
• The Son of Man is needy in the persons of those who hunger and thirst.
  — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2022
• The United States isn’t where most of the world’s needy infants are to be found.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• Chick is the live wire: the needy and oblivious one, the drama queen.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
• In spite of his needy tendencies, Austin was beloved by cast and crew.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• Then Norma made quilts for needy people, sewing more than 100 in the past six years.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• That needy Jesus, who pops in right at the end, deserves his own sad and thirsty spinoff.
  — Matthew Love, Vulture, 23 May 2021
• Maybe his dates see him as seeking too much and coming off as needy.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Each brings different skills and holes, but each would be a talent boon to a needy team.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2022
• But in the interim, some needy buyers are likely to be priced out of the market.
  — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• Best of all — all the money goes to help needy people, through the charities of SAY Detroit.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2023
• Once the season began, Wentz spent Mondays waiting for a call from a needy team.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The answer lies in the fear of being seen as overly dependent or needy.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• If the Jaguars take Hutchinson at No. 1, offensive line-needy teams still will have both top tackles on the board.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2022
• These liars were, as a whole, needy and eager for social approval.
  — Ellen Barry Dave Sanders, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Will a quarterback-needy team such as New England or Washington push its way to the top of the draft to get one?
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• There will be pitching-needy teams at both the 2022 trade deadline and next offseason.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 8 Dec. 2021
• Funds raised will be used to assist needy children in Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
• So to reserve your happy self for your new love and to bring only your needy self to them is the kind of thing that can wear a friendship down to a nub.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• The stories were so sad, as sometimes the organizations are the last stop for the truly needy.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 19 July 2021
• Nola Darling commands the head of the table, while all three of her needy lovers share in her holiday feast.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022
• For the right filmmaker, an actor can never be too needy.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• Most of my friends come from stable middle-class families that aren’t as needy as mine.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• The main sources of surplus food for the hot meals that Leket provides daily to tens of thousands of needy Israelis had vanished overnight.
  — Renee Ghert-Zand, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• For the caps lock crowd, a sequence of big, blocky letter-shapes can feel triumphal, or boisterous, or rude, or needy.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
• The toys will be taken to Kibbe Fuller School where they will be distributed to needy children within the town at Christmas.
  — courant.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• Chabad and Frena have partnered to distribute food to the many needy people in the neighborhood.
  — Alix Wall, sun-sentinel.com, 27 May 2021
• Homeless and housing-insecure residents seized a dozen of the vacant homes in El Sereno in a coordinated protest against the lack of state action to house the most needy.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• Moving in together for the first time the young couple are attempting domestic bliss, but unbeknown to them, the house is haunted by a collection of needy spirits who died in Ramshead Manor over the last 200 years.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024