How to Use dork in a Sentence

dork

noun

• I look like a complete dork in these clothes.
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2023
• All three – nerd, dork, and geek – suggest social ineptitude.
  — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 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
• Within this line of vehicles, there was car dork controversy when Ferrari introduced the 488.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2020
• Felicia is an actor, producer, writer, funny person, dork, and all-around cool person.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2012

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024