How to Use worrywart in a Sentence

worrywart

noun

• My father is a real worrywart.
• This year pop culture saw fit to gift us with not one, but three good-hearted worrywarts who carry their stress in their stomach.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• By contrast to his boss, Barker’s partner, Thomas Lewellyn — the book’s narrator — is about 30, married, eager to have a child and rather a worrywart.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• With the cash-like instruments now yielding 1.93%, their highest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, worrywarts can once again earn at least a bit of money on the sidelines.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 22 May 2018
• Then came the pandemic and the resurgence of worrywart investing.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 19 June 2021
• And then there’s our friend the anterior cingulate gyrus, aka the worrywart center, which is more developed in the female brain.
  — Katty Kay, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
• Essential to the reassuring vibe is that the young protagonists are all familiar archetypes: there's the loudmouth, the worrywart, the sensitive fat kid, the tomboy, and the shy boy who assumes the role of group leader.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
• The world, after all, is a dangerous place and there is always something to frighten professional worrywarts.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2017
• Yet worrywarts say that while liquidity is plentiful at first when volatility rises, it cannot be relied on if markets stay jumpy for a while.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil’s girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2018
• Despite Gevinson's obvious efforts, Kate is a whiny, brow-furrowing worrywart.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
• Anybody who had predicted when Trump took office that the president’s lawyers would officially proclaim his right to start or stop any federal investigation would have been dismissed as a paranoid worrywart.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 June 2018
• Overthinking neurotic worrywart mothers often really bask in the afterglow of birth.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 12 July 2017
• Hearing this may come as a relief to anyone who has felt sheepish about constantly changing their personal safety standards, as if the inconsistency reveals some character defect, such as being indecisive or a worrywart.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
• Habitual worrywarts—including some practitioners of the dismal science—see ominous signs that America’s record-breaking expansion will soon end.
  — Burton G. Malkiel and Atanu Saha, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2019
• This condition is no secret, but even the typical financial worrywarts have been unperturbed that Netflix is perpetually spending other people’s money to cement itself as a default entertainment option for billions of people.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024