How to Use quitter in a Sentence

quitter

noun
  • Don't be a quitter. I know you can do it.
  • My cat, Boris, is not a quitter.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Both men are quitters, and both of them are resigned to fate.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Alas, the thing about being a true fan is, no quitters allowed.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Trump hops on the back of the hog and the two quitters drive off into the sunset.
    — Nell Scovell, HWD, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But its new tool, launched last year, appeals to quitters instead.
    — Emmy Lucas, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The construction on the road stopped due to the builder being a big quitter.
    — Love Letters.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Sleeping is for quitters, babies and those who count points on the regular.
    — Patrick Varone, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2015
  • This pope doesn't prance around in red Prada shoes like the previous quitter pope.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Coach Kennedy has been denied the freedom to coach for over five years, but he's never been a quitter.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • For another quitter, what would have been a straightforward business took a bizarre turn.
    — Samra Zulfaqar, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Since her comeback post-Tokyo, Biles has spoken openly about the trolls who call her a quitter.
    — Dana O'Neil, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
  • This era is most certainly a quitter’s market, where talent is in high demand and workplaces are rife with burnout.
    — Michael Held, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Some may have ended up with quitter’s remorse, but many have found that quitting did get them ahead financially.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Winners never quit; quitters never win.
    — Dimity McDowell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But Salah, who travelled several hours a day just to reach training as a youngster, is no quitter.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Struggling through legs and lungs that don't want to go today is still better than sitting at home, calling myself a quitter.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Biden was never a quitter, from his days as a child with a bad stutter and a family with uncertain income.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 22 July 2024
  • The influx of quitters is doing little to ease a pinch for employers seeking workers.
    — Eric Morath, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
  • If players sat out during the uncertain time, they were often labeled as quitters or players who didn’t love the game.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the past week, some conservative pundits have tried to cast Biles as a quitter, a loser, a selfish snowflake.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Some critics showed little sympathy, describing her as a quitter.
    — Scott Parrott, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • Not that many rage quitters, apparently The survey said most respondents didn't care too much about losing a game.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But backlash, mostly from older men, has been fierce, calling Biles a quitter for declining to risk her life for a sporting event.
    — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 29 July 2021
  • Now the Dolphins were being called quitters and tankers -- players who had given up on their coaches, their season and themselves.
    — Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Media experts wary of Twitter quitters said a distinction between the platform and how people use it should not be lost.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 29 Jan. 2019
  • But when looked at per successful quitter, the cash programs cost less than e-cigarettes or traditional methods.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • The employer, however, is eventually harmed even more by holding on to a quiet quitter who is a drain on the business.
    — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And the numbers of quitters among some demographics, including among older people, have fallen flat.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Begich came out hard against Palin ahead of the special election, questioning her seriousness as a candidate and casting her as a quitter.
    — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2022

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