How to Use drama queen in a Sentence

drama queen

noun
  • Vecna is nothing if not a drama queen.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a drama queen who liked to moon people.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Explain how awkward your work has become because of this drama queen.
    — cleveland.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a reason behind this drama queen’s theatrics.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The world's a stage this week as vital Venus joins the sun in dynamic Leo, the cosmic drama queen.
    — SFChronicle.com, 21 July 2019
  • All of which is superseded, of course, by not being such a drama queen cowboy, cooling your jets, and calling the cops instead.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2015
  • So, unless you are headed off to war or want to come across as a total drama queen, the more casual mata ne (see you later) will suffice.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Like a drama queen writing her will, New York is perpetually and loudly dying.
    — Photographs By Nina Westervelt, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Curtis's performance recognizes Hedwig as both genderqueer heroine and Kanye-sized drama queen.
    — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Cruella Imperial Costume Be bold with your look, just like the drama queen Cruella herself.
    — Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping, 15 July 2021
  • Spirit was the headstrong drama queen while Opportunity was the overachiever, according to team members.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the piece focuses on trying to stay calm and accept the kinds of semi-innocent drama queens and low-level troublemakers that populate any office environment.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Alicent, played now by Olivia Cooke, on the other hand, is a drama queen, a strategic emotional manipulator, and, as of recent episodes, something of a hot-head.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Contemporary Washington is full of drama queens who pitch their operatic outrage to the farthest seats in the house, but few would stage a mock invasion of a secure facility.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Our list includes classic Disney Halloween costumes, celebrity superstars, spooky witches from classic movies and the drama queen herself from the legendary movie, Mean Girls.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 6 June 2022

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