How to Use crybaby in a Sentence

crybaby

noun

• Candy Crush and a crybaby: sounds like the perfect pair.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• Speaking of crybabies: Charles Barkley was once asked to name his favorite white wine.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2018
• Are any of these crybabies going to pull out his, her, or their checkbooks to support the Whitney?
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2020
• Odysseus is a sissy, a crybaby, Jay informs the class, who are hooting with laughter.
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• Super-deep repertoire of falls and flails, plus a classic crybaby Flop Face.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• The multi-million-dollar crybabies of the NFL need to take a lesson from these young Americans.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Who knew that Weinstein, so feared for so many years, was such an insecure crybaby?
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Ermengarde, the school dunce, Lottie, the school crybaby, and Becky, the scullery maid, quickly find a defender, surrogate mother, and friend in Sara.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
• Now a few of these crybaby women have started to talk to reporters, and Bailey has decided his only way out is to kill himself.
  — Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Yes, there are new creatures including Sobble, described by the company as a crybaby. Get it: Sob-ble?
  — Harold Goldberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
• One is a petulant, frowny-faced, tantrum-throwing crybaby who has never been held accountable for anything.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2019
• Trump has brought back respect for law enforcement, the military and the American flag despite the Hollywood crybabies and their ilk.
  — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• In a season in which referees against players has become a league-wide problem, the Warriors, noble champions of two of the past three seasons, have become what some would call crybabies.
  — Scott Ostler, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
• In a season where referees vs. players has become a league-wide problem, the Warriors, noble champions of two of the past three seasons, have become what some would call crybabies.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• Christopher Cantwell, the crybaby who was seen sobbing on camera after finding out there was a warrant for his arrest, has been removed from both Facebook and Instagram.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 17 Aug. 2017
• What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone's free speech?
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
• What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech?
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
• What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech?
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
• The latest to make his appearance — excuse me, reappearance — in the crybaby ranks is former hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, 78, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at $2.5 billion.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• In this shadow story, Harding wasn’t a monster but a victim, an underdog unfairly vilified, and Kerrigan was a crybaby who made too much of her pain.
  — Leslie Jamison, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Often, detractors use both tactics against the same women – infantilizing them as princesses or crybabies, and also smearing them as craven or crazy (just ask Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi).
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 10 Oct. 2017
• The ostensibly proper balance — confident and strong but not arrogant and aggressive, sensitive without being a crybaby — is subjective and murky.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020

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