How to Use geek in a Sentence

geek

noun
  • He was a real geek in high school.
  • Once craft beer was the domain of a small cult of brew geeks.
    — WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
    — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Still, whiskey geeks who sip it straight will like its spicy follow through.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024
  • There will be people on dates and magic geeks in sweater vests.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But grammar geeks have complained of its overuse for many years.
    — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • For just a few hours, the geeks are the rock stars and the popular kids.
    — Sarah Kliff, Vox, 30 May 2018
  • As a lifelong geek, many of my favorite presents have been things that plug in.
    — Clint Davis, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Again, this sounds like the sort of thing geeks said in the 1990s.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The guy sitting in the back wore some kind of t-shirt about a geek ghetto squad.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 June 2017
  • His staff, many of whom self-identify as film nerds or movie geeks, agree.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But Sandy is the sci-fi geek of the family.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Every car geek on earth dreamed of getting all three in the same place at the same time.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 5 July 2020
  • Tech geeks speculated about what the bots might one day be able to do.
    — Mark Niquette, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Matthew is a geek playing a geek, and those orbs of his take everything in.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • My housemate is not a geek, but sometimes civilians have much to teach us.
    — Laurie Penny, Wired, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Among its geeks were freaks, some of whom indeed rocked Birkenstocks.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In the end, though, Preller remains a baseball geek of the best kind.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Shotwell had no desire to spend the next four years of her life considered a geek.
    — Eric Berger, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • There's a game that music geeks like to play when drinking called rock draft lottery.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Once a music geek, always a music geek.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
  • As a black woman who has been a geek for half her life, this was more than just putting on a costume for fun.
    — Jillian Robinson, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Her boyfriend, Ethan, for one thing, who was the real survival geek of the two of them.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • To those who love seeing these movies in a theater full of other ski geeks, this shift feels like a loss.
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Andy Mullins is the coffee geek who figures out which coffees to serve and with what.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But geeks are grown up, so this covers the interests of me and my friends and people like us.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2017
  • By night — or really, all the time — the 40 year old is a music geek.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Heaven to the geeks and superfans in the balcony.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 3 June 2026
  • The Low-Down on High-Tech Once, high-tech was for geeks.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Dave Franco, in glasses, plays up the grinning geek factor a bit too much.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025

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