How to Use jock in a Sentence

jock

noun

• The jock, the loser, the brainy nerd—think The Breakfast Club.
  — Annalise Mabe, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2022
• No square-jawed jock, this guy worships the Hives and the Vines.
  — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
• There's parts of yourself that could be a nerd, a gamer or a jock.
  — Caitlin Hernández, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• Showed early foot in a turf sprint two back and may get the lead today with top jock.
  — Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Brown’s Mindy is a snarky wonder with the best lines, while Gooding’s Chad is a good-hearted take on decades of the jerky movie jock.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• The actor who plays Lucy is Afro-Latina and the actor who plays the jock tormenting her is white.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• His host mother’s sister, the one who lives in Fresno, comes over to babysit the kids, along with her hot jock of a husband and their son.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• How does a mean jock become a caring elder teen with a lot of friends who happen to be kids?
  — Estelle Tang, ELLE, 3 June 2022
• Boys don’t skip classes for girls who wear glasses, according to the school jocks.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2023
• Ron, who has the short haircut and earnest look of a fifties jock, was abandoned by his parents and raised by a grandmother.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Growing up outside of Vancouver, the son of a lumberjack, Waite was a bit of a jock.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
• The star played Paul, Kevin's nerdy best friend, although in real life, Saviano was known to be the popular jock on set.
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• Kenneth was next, brainy and studious, but also kind of a jock—a picture of success from a very young age.
  — Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
• The nerd is not the opposite of the jock but a different iteration of the same logic.
  — Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• The jock’s story played out like a Fast and Furious film, for instance, while the band geek’s was a musical.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
• Sports jocks and computer nerds spent a lifetime at odds with each other.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
• When the football jocks get handsy with their dates and try to spike the punch at a party, Nancy urges her girlfriends not to give away so much of their power.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Her former boyfriend, Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), is now a jock on the basketball team.
  — Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• Because of course Thor, the lovable jock of the cosmos, would pick an eldritch entity's graveyard to be his gym.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2022
• Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy and sweatproof wireless headphones.
  — Richard Baguley, Wired, 10 Apr. 2021
• Below, just 29 stars that deserved to wear a jock on the cover of a magazine before the ex–queen of Staten Island.
  — Wolfgang Ruth, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2022
• A lot of people have lost jobs, money and businesses, but there’s not a single jock who hasn’t gotten a paycheck in the last two years.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 27 Aug. 2021
• An old Senators fan is willing to sell his soul so his team can beat the Yankees for the pennant, and he gets turned into a star jock (Tab Hunter) to seal the deal.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• In high schools across the country, jocks and theater kids too often live in distinct social strata.
  — Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• As a hitter, as a baseball player, Ortiz couldn’t carry Bonds’ jock.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2022
• In the climax of the film, the most sadistic of Oskar’s torturers — a male teenage jock — drags him into an indoor pool and pins him beneath the water’s surface.
  — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
• Chuck was a high school jock and was almost always seen carrying a basketball.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
• Regardless, no jock ever has displayed more will than Woods.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2022
• To many of these constituents, a ballpark represents a final nail in the coffin — capital squashing art, the jocks exiling the freaks.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024