How to Use needy in a Sentence

needy

adjective
  • As a child, she was extremely needy and had no self-confidence.
  • But the agents were needy from the start.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • They’re not supposed to be needy.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Your mom friend is overly needy.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Your mom friend is overly needy.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 6 June 2026
  • Loud, naïve, ham fisted, needy.
    — Francesco Pacifico, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The wealth will be used to advance the gospel and to help the poor and needy.
    — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But to get there, a lot of linebacker-needy teams would have to pass on him.
    — Nick Harris april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Philoptochos means friends of the poor and needy.
    — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Maybe his dates see him as seeking too much and coming off as needy.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The same can be said for White, if a running back-needy team.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Stressful times are the worst times to feel hemmed in by a needy new girlfriend.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Stressful times are the worst times to feel hemmed in by a needy new girlfriend.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2020
  • With the strike looming, teachers had sent enough food for a week home with the needy kids.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2018
  • At first he was just seen as eccentric and needy and a gossip.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Both groups recoiled at the image of old people as frail or needy.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • One core reason to have unions is to boost the real wages of needy workers.
    — Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 17 June 2019
  • So why did the pass-rush needy Lions cut ties with him in March?
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2020
  • In spite of his needy tendencies, Austin was beloved by cast and crew.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • These liars were, as a whole, needy and eager for social approval.
    — Ellen Barry Dave Sanders, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The Son of Man is needy in the persons of those who hunger and thirst.
    — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Where pine trees are concerned, some are more water-needy than others.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Each brings different skills and holes, but each would be a talent boon to a needy team.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2022
  • That needy Jesus, who pops in right at the end, deserves his own sad and thirsty spinoff.
    — Matthew Love, Vulture, 23 May 2021
  • The food box program is designed to get that food to needy families.
    — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 26 June 2020
  • The memo adds that the boxes should go directly from farms to needy seniors.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 May 2025
  • The oldest, a daughter, has always been needy and played the victim.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
  • Balfe runs the gamut from caring to angry, frightened, tough, needy and joyful.
    — Outlander Fan, Marie Claire, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The United States isn’t where most of the world’s needy infants are to be found.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021

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