How to Use knucklehead in a Sentence

knucklehead

noun
  • Don't be such a knucklehead.
  • I'd like to get my hands on the knucklehead who designed that paper-towel dispenser.
  • No white knucklehead wants to buy from him.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • No one thought that these two knuckleheads would start fighting for real.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Don has a long, long fuse, but the neighborhood knucklehead wants to light it.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Tell those knuckleheads to stop passing a football near the grill.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Bikers, don’t be knuckleheads; ride single file and stay in the bike lane.
    — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 17 May 2017
  • Right, Curry got hot and the Celtics played some knucklehead ball.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • All coaches run into some knucklehead who wants to run up the score and embarrass you.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Everybody loves some knucklehead music, but there was a balance back in the day.
    — William E. Ketchum Iii, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • He could be charged with a federal crime, and the knucklehead will be identified.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • No one will ever remember the knucklehead fan who started the fight.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • So look for Epstein to stay the course, though a few more knuckleheads probably wouldn't hurt.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • That my son and his knucklehead friends collapse with laughter at Menery’s sports clips gives me traces of hope.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Grocery stores are adapting to male shoppers — and treating them like knuckleheads.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
  • Bauman is desperate to go back to being a knucklehead with his buddies.
    — A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
  • This is mainly so those knuckleheads don't bother you for 24-48 hours.
    — Patrick Varone, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2015
  • Poverty, a childhood spent in trailers, and knucklehead friends are all part of the campy atmosphere.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Even a knucklehead like me understands why bubble math doesn’t compute for football.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 18 June 2020
  • Yes, even a knucklehead like me can grasp the football logic of how Elway is going about his business.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Sure enough, from the very start that night, those same two knuckleheads started yelling, ‘Give us Bumgarner!
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • This doesn’t mean the Dolphins should start fights and engage in knucklehead behavior that draws penalty flags.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The risk being that some knucklehead federal officer will see us and smirk at us, and steal that one last thing that belongs only to us.
    — Héctor Tobar, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Some of the casting is oddball, as with Brendan Fraser’s impish take on a mob knucklehead.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
  • My character is just total knucklehead.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • That’s the sort of talent knuckleheads who think this music game is all about proficiency and flash will never understand.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2024
  • He was fatally shot for his efforts by a gun-toting knucklehead who will likely face a lengthy prison term for needlessly taking the life of a very good man.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Things happen in war’s downtime, silly things like the knuckleheads from a recon platoon playing a prank one night, throwing a tear gas grenade into the barracks.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2023
  • Behind in His Reading You guys are a bunch of knuckleheads and don't have the sense God gave a zucchini.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2005
  • How long until some knucklehead steals a bag of doughnuts, hops into a Waymo and leads police and squadrons of helicopters on a driverless car chase?
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024

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