How to Use drama queen in a Sentence

drama queen

noun
  • Chick is the live wire: the needy and oblivious one, the drama queen.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a drama queen who liked to moon people.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The show is once again giving Tahz the drama queen edit.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The world's a stage this week as vital Venus joins the sun in dynamic Leo, the cosmic drama queen.
    SFChronicle.com, 21 July 2019
  • Our inner stubborn drama queen will rear its head, and hard.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 28 July 2021
  • All of which is superseded, of course, by not being such a drama queen cowboy, cooling your jets, and calling the cops instead.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2015
  • Explain how awkward your work has become because of this drama queen.
    cleveland.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Cruella Imperial Costume Be bold with your look, just like the drama queen Cruella herself.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Like a drama queen writing her will, New York is perpetually and loudly dying.
    Photographs By Nina Westervelt, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Alicent, played now by Olivia Cooke, on the other hand, is a drama queen, a strategic emotional manipulator, and, as of recent episodes, something of a hot-head.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Our list includes classic Disney Halloween costumes, celebrity superstars, spooky witches from classic movies and the drama queen herself from the legendary movie, Mean Girls.
    Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2022
  • Contemporary Washington is full of drama queens who pitch their operatic outrage to the farthest seats in the house, but few would stage a mock invasion of a secure facility.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2019
  • That fact doesn’t stop me from getting excited every time former teenage drama queen teases a new project, be it a deeply misguided Bret Easton Ellis movie or, in the case of her Tuesday announcement, new music.
    Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Curtis's performance recognizes Hedwig as both genderqueer heroine and Kanye-sized drama queen.
    oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Spirit was the headstrong drama queen while Opportunity was the overachiever, according to team members.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the piece focuses on trying to stay calm and accept the kinds of semi-innocent drama queens and low-level troublemakers that populate any office environment.
    Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018

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