How to Use himbo in a Sentence

himbo

noun
  • Hemsworth might be the most self-aware himbo to grace the screen since, uh, Brad Pitt (?)!
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 23 Oct. 2020
  • At first glance, Efron is playing a version of some of his past comedic roles, a himbo in a war zone.
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
  • That’s the magic formula of the himbo, and the cornerstone of The Lost City’s easy humor.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Played by Ryan Gosling, the Barbie movie’s Ken seems to be the ultimate himbo: body for sin, head full of rocks, crotch with nothing there.
    Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • Oh, the torment of being a gimbo (that’s a gay himbo) on Instagram.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Which is to say that Raya, like the characters in my favorite Disney classics, had a lot more on her mind than getting kissed by some himbo.
    Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
  • The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • They’re swapped from women to men, like the flight attendant with a hot body and a head in the clouds embodied here as a textbook himbo (Claybourne Elder, daft and deadpan).
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Also, Ryan Gosling is along for the ride as her perpetual himbo companion, Ken.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 22 July 2023
  • That quality can also be seen in the story of Ken, who is distinctively a himbo—a sweet, well-meaning man who might not always be the brightest.
    Time, 6 July 2023
  • Chris Hemsworth continues to give great musclebound himbo, but the stakes never acquire much urgency in a movie too busy being jokey and juvenile to tell a gripping story.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022
  • Nonetheless, while the movie itself may not be a winner, everyone can uniformly agree that seeing Fraser back on the big screen will be a welcome sight — and that such a triumphant comeback couldn’t have happened to a nicer himbo.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The helmet-head himbo was introduced in 1961 — two years after Barbie — and from inception, he was intended to be a boyfriend, not a husband, her companion but not a legally binding one.
    Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Whatever my issues with the picture (poor pacing, scattered action, making Thor a himbo to the point of cringe-inducing incompetence, etc.), the finale works.
    Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Lee Pace is delightful, playing a himbo and the triumphant winner of an impromptu underwater breath-holding contest.
    Danielle Momoh, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The scene of their writing and recording the song — complete with auto-tune-free singing and an overenthusiastic himbo co-writer with a guitar — made for viscerally uncomfortable viewing.
    Louis Staples, Vulture, 23 June 2022
  • Gabi morphs from fawning fangirl to seductive sexpot to sadistic prankster and bully, dominating and humiliating the hapless himbo James with relish and her signature siren screech.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023

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