How to Use buzzkill in a Sentence

buzzkill

noun

• For Katz, that’s a buzzkill of a way to end a great day.
  — Joe Lindsey, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2011
• What's the big deal?More than two drinks can be a buzzkill for skin.
  — Krista Bennett Demaio, Cosmopolitan, 2 Jan. 2015
• How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
• But new, up-close images of Mars proved to be a buzzkill.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2016
• Sorry to be a buzzkill, but kids didn’t need the summers to help out there.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
• Having a reed break in the middle of a session is a buzzkill.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 21 June 2020
• And wet shoes that can take days to dry are a spring vacation buzzkill.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Not to be a giant buzzkill, but how many people will watch it at all?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2017
• The rock music in this production will, no doubt, make a buzzkill out of the Shakespeare purist.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• No one has said, but the buzzkill would be if MLB has no plans to ever return to Oakland.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• But then—smack!—there's the biggest summer buzzkill: the fresh, itchy, welt of a mosquito bite.
  — Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
• Price: Free Best for: Just about everyone, though the time limit is a buzzkill.
  — Christopher Null, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• In addition to being the worst owner in all of sports, Daniel Snyder is one hell of a buzzkill.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• Spring break buzzkill: Your booze-y drink can be packed with empty calories.
  — Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
• Watching the up and down, up and down of the crowd was a bit like watching an outdoor version of the State of the Union address without the buzzkill of Democrats who refuse to play along.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• The novel coronavirus is hands-down the biggest buzzkill of the 21st century.
  — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Waiting ages for your casino winnings to land in your bank account can be such a buzzkill after that big win.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
• In one photo, the pair is seen with their legs intertwined in prime cuddle position- with a bodyguard as a third wheel just a few inches away, which is kind of a buzzkill.
  — Eileen Reslen, Cosmopolitan, 17 Oct. 2017
• The main buzzkill, many say, is pitchers using gluey gunk to grip the ball better, enhancing their spin rate and making pitches dance and dart.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
• Besides running out of food, there are no greater buzzkills at a cookout than food poisoning.
  — Angela Davis, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Even if Meghan’s official buzzkill title will likely be the Duchess of Sussex.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Luckily, there are ways to act without being a buzzkill.
  — Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• The Spurs unraveled without their best player, losing the game by two points and setting in motion a buzzkill of a series sweep for Golden State.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• Climate policy promises to be the real buzzkill at the G-7 party.
  — David McHugh, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Airbnb has been testing such buzzkill tools in Australia since October 2021.
  — WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022
• Humans have been acting like buzzkills, turning on the overhead lights at the fireflies' summer party with street lamps, floodlights and LEDs.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Then came the buzzkill: This original map won’t be good for much longer, cosmically speaking.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2020
• And swapping Robin in for Jonathan as Nancy’s most frequent scene partner does wonders for Nancy, who has been something of a buzzkill in seasons past.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• After the brief buzzkill of the financial crisis, the Arab Spring pushed oil back into triple digits, making this seem like the new normal and spurring yet more drilling, including in U.S. shale.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Facebook’s chief financial officer had to play the role of buzzkill and interjected a couple of times to sound notes of caution.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024