How to Use jock in a Sentence

jock

noun
  • There's parts of yourself that could be a nerd, a gamer or a jock.
    — Caitlin Hernández, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
  • How can a small compete in a world of oversize jock beasts?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
  • By the cops, by the jocks, by everybody.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • My overall mood board was preppy jock.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Showed early foot in a turf sprint two back and may get the lead today with top jock.
    — Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • No square-jawed jock, this guy worships the Hives and the Vines.
    — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • No square-jawed jock, this guy worships the Hives and the Vines.
    — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
  • People of all kinds loved that show, from football jocks to kitty nanas.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
  • Trainer is tops in career wins here and jock is one of the best in the business.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Root was always the new kid, not knowing who the jock was, or who was the bully.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
  • We’re now viewed as artists, more than just dumb jocks hitting the ground and doing all this crazy stuff.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Sports jocks and computer nerds spent a lifetime at odds with each other.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Maybe John-John was a vacuous jock type, but even hunks have souls.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • How does a mean jock become a caring elder teen with a lot of friends who happen to be kids?
    — Estelle Tang, ELLE, 3 June 2022
  • Boys don’t skip classes for girls who wear glasses, according to the school jocks.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • Now Tucker is going to have to change his ways… or the school jock will soon become the class joke!
    — Caitlin White, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Before, Tatum had only thought of himself as a dumb jock on the football team.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy and sweatproof wireless headphones.
    — Richard Baguley, Wired, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The jock, the loser, the brainy nerd—think The Breakfast Club.
    — Annalise Mabe, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Kenneth was next, brainy and studious, but also kind of a jock—a picture of success from a very young age.
    — Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Photos of Pärt from his school days show the bearded mystic of now to have been then something of a jock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • There was a Queen Bee, a loudmouth, a nerd, a jock, and more than a few basket cases.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Chuck was a high school jock and was almost always seen carrying a basketball.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Ron, who has the short haircut and earnest look of a fifties jock, was abandoned by his parents and raised by a grandmother.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In high schools across the country, jocks and theater kids too often live in distinct social strata.
    — Gwydion Suilebhan, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Originally, the dopey jock role had been filled by actor Steven Ford.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • The first section of the opening ceremony was an ode to the arts and culture of Italy, not a jock in sight.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The nerd is not the opposite of the jock but a different iteration of the same logic.
    — Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • And my experience of myself at that point was not as a two-dimensional jock or nerd or pretty girl.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The way the jock tax works is based on the duty days that the player spends in a particular jurisdiction.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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