How to Use bloke in a Sentence

bloke

noun
  • This bloke just about went down on one knee.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • An evening spent with these blokes will take you beyond the stars.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Melvin is a lovely, lovely bloke.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • What a special role, to be the bloke who got those autographs.
    — Stephen Rea, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The people that sit around me are mainly blokes in their fifties and sixties.
    — Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Now, Gates is one of those rich blokes who believes his kind should pay more in taxes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • So, all of a sudden, having a bloke around is unusual — even now.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • Their friendship, during the band and afterward, was joke-y and bloke-y.
    — Jancee Dunn, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Jauregui is bitten by the fangs of love when one handsome bloke in a spiked jacket brings her whole world to a halt.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Everyone who saw that accident unfold knew the old bloke was at fault.
    — New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Hold on, the bloke who stands by the goal and has never had any impact on any football match ever has something to say!
    — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The origin of the painting was a Titian of a bloke playing an organ and a nude woman.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn’t spilling a drop.
    — Kalin Kipling, sacbee.com, 4 June 2017
  • People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn't spilling a drop.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • His eyes were always on us, just talking to the table like a normal bloke talking about Villa.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • For a lager-swilling bloke like Charlie, the proposition is as alien as going to the pub in a tutu.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
  • But now and again, a Toto comes along to pull back the curtain and show us that the wizard is just a bloke with lots of bells and whistles.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • One of these comics uses a drink to perform feminine swagger, the other bloke-at-the-bar thoughtfulness.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • Of course, her new boss (Adam Demos) is a mysterious, rugged bloke and sparks fly – as does liquefied sheep poo.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • All the blokes are coping with romantic dysfunctions and other regrets.
    — Bob Strauss, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • What’s the deal with the sinister-looking bloke who periodically shows up in a car outside her house?
    — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • James Fairchild is effective as Don, the bigoted bloke who learns acceptance.
    — nola.com, 15 June 2019
  • Whereas Mrs von der Leyen speaks like a technocrat, Mr Johnson speaks like a bloke telling jokes in a pub.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Sam Groth Final tip of the backwards cap for one of tennis’ good blokes, playing in his final tournament.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, let’s face it, Facebook has much more compelling content that two blokes talking to each other via webcam.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
  • Last ditch challenges and fearless, goal-denying blokes are Adrian Mariappa’s bread and butter.
    — SI.com, 7 May 2018
  • For a working-class bloke from the East End of London, being immortalized in such a fashion seemed like a pipe dream.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • Flipping past the guy with the world’s longest fingernails and the heaviest house cat ever, Galvin saw a photo of a bloke bog snorkeling and had an epiphany.
    — Sol Neelman, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2012
  • This old bloke from the Tanami remembered the gold rush days, and probably heard stories about eating Chinamen.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • His 14th solo album Make-Up is a Lie was released in March, but that bloke isn’t funny anymore.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2026

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