How to Use knucklehead in a Sentence

knucklehead

noun

• Don't be such a knucklehead.
• I'd like to get my hands on the knucklehead who designed that paper-towel dispenser.
• Right, Curry got hot and the Celtics played some knucklehead ball.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
• Don has a long, long fuse, but the neighborhood knucklehead wants to light it.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
• Bikers, don’t be knuckleheads; ride single file and stay in the bike lane.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 17 May 2017
• Tell those knuckleheads to stop passing a football near the grill.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• And there’s a loud knucklehead demanding to be seen now.
  — Jay Baruch, STAT, 21 Apr. 2020
• So look for Epstein to stay the course, though a few more knuckleheads probably wouldn't hurt.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• That my son and his knucklehead friends collapse with laughter at Menery’s sports clips gives me traces of hope.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Lon Elmer, Seattle, Washington Pyne was a bully and a knucklehead on the air, but there was something that made me watch him for the laughs.
  — Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Lon Elmer, Seattle, Washington Pyne was a bully and a knucklehead on the air, but there was something that made me watch him for the laughs.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• Sure enough, from the very start that night, those same two knuckleheads started yelling, ‘Give us Bumgarner!
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• All coaches run into some knucklehead who wants to run up the score and embarrass you.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• No one thought that these two knuckleheads would start fighting for real.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• He could be charged with a federal crime, and the knucklehead will be identified.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• This is mainly so those knuckleheads don't bother you for 24-48 hours.
  — Patrick Varone, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2015
• Everybody loves some knucklehead music, but there was a balance back in the day.
  — William E. Ketchum Iii, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Poverty, a childhood spent in trailers, and knucklehead friends are all part of the campy atmosphere.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• Yes, even a knucklehead like me can grasp the football logic of how Elway is going about his business.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2020
• If Lock isn’t the No. 2 quarterback on opening night, John Elway was a knucklehead for drafting him in the second round.
  — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
• Some of the casting is oddball, as with Brendan Fraser’s impish take on a mob knucklehead.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
• The knucklehead convention got so bad, the bridge — which cost nearly $600 million and took several years to build — was closed three nights in a row over the weekend.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• James does everything – e-e-e-verything – in Game 1, only to have a knucklehead teammate not know the score at the most important time.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2018
• The risk being that some knucklehead federal officer will see us and smirk at us, and steal that one last thing that belongs only to us.
  — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Grocery stores are adapting to male shoppers — and treating them like knuckleheads.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
• Bauman is desperate to go back to being a knucklehead with his buddies.
  — A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
• He was fatally shot for his efforts by a gun-toting knucklehead who will likely face a lengthy prison term for needlessly taking the life of a very good man.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
• Things happen in war’s downtime, silly things like the knuckleheads from a recon platoon playing a prank one night, throwing a tear gas grenade into the barracks.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2023
• Even a knucklehead like me understands why bubble math doesn’t compute for football.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 18 June 2020
• Yet any knucklehead could have seen that cornerback, linebacker and receiver looked like a reasonable match of needs with the first three picks in this draft, and the Browns went cornerback, linebacker, receiver.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 May 2021

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024