How to Use dork in a Sentence

dork

noun
  • I look like a complete dork in these clothes.
  • Those Park-Conklins are such sweet dorks.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This guy is a dork, and DiCaprio plays him as such.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So this has now produced 20 hours of dork anecdotes.
    — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
  • These country dorks can't stick to their own industry.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • What do these things make me, a geek, a nerd, a dweeb, a dork, or simply different?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2013
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Joana was more like the kid waving her arms like a dork and dancing along to the music with her friends.
    — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Turning down the popular guy for the dork that liked you before your makeover.
    — Diana Bruk, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Instagram is this fun, dumb thing to be a little bit of a dork on and to kind of promote the movie.
    — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • The comedian likens it to kids at the cool table calling her a dork.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Kwofi is tall and muscular, while Stark's a movie dork that has to wear arch supports in his shoes.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 June 2020
  • Bellino isn't some dork who has struggled in the female department.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • However, much like the lovable dork that came before him, that doesn’t mean that he can’t be redeemed down the line.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Strangers stop and comment on its slick looking design, whereas many other e-bikes in this price range give off a dork vibe.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Joe Namath was a hopeless dork-for-life compared with Brady’s cool in that moment.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • To see this brand-new stretch of ocean, the deep-sea team is sending a craft full of high-tech touchscreens and a three-strong crew of joke-cracking dorks.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • All three – nerd, dork, and geek – suggest social ineptitude.
    — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
  • And, one of Jack just kind of being a dork and wanting to show Lorde the funniest video ever.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 May 2017
  • Swiping through profiles on your handset is so much sexier than finding dates on your computer like a dork.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • But there may not be a universe of fiending Letterboxd dorks ready to uplift a weirdo like Lewis on the charts.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • With such a volume of production happening throughout the decade, the shows kept a lot of dorks happy and a lot of actors busy.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Monica invites to dinner an old friend from high school, Will, who was an even bigger dork than Ross back in the day.
    — Brian Boone, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Monica invites to dinner an old friend from high school, Will, who was an even bigger dork than Ross back in the day.
    — Brian Boone, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • After all, as Dilley might say, better to infect the people around you with a deadly virus than to risk looking like a dork.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 20 May 2020
  • Initially wary of each other, the alpha dorks become best friends who leave all manner of hysterical chaos in their wake.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For the most tragic car dorks, stop worrying about saving up for a down payment on something new and start learning how to fix the cars that came out before smartphones.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • Erskine played Maya with an alpha dork's tense confidence, always unsure if people were laughing at her or with her.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • When their story begins, Jeanette is your typical dork while Kate is living her best Cher Horowitz life.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The surviving twin, Will (the beautiful and hilarious Cole Allen), treats his dad like a dork.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018

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