How to Use schlub in a Sentence

schlub

noun
  • And such a schlub in a certain way.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Not just any schlub was welcome on the squad.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That and the schlubs, like yours truly, who venture in off the street.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 26 July 2017
  • Ailes is a mean schlub with a big hustle, and his idea of success is settling grudges.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 30 June 2019
  • The last before that was some schlub named … (checks notes) … Woody Hayes.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
  • It's rumpled in the dolce far niente way, not in the I'm-a-schlub manner.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 19 June 2021
  • Kevin James has made a career out of playing lovable schlubs.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • And for the love of God, stop picking on those poor schlubs at the CBO.
    — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 9 July 2017
  • In the show, he’s played by Ray Romano as more of a tender-hearted schlub than a true-blue curmudgeon.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • This film plays more like a working-class fable, the kind where a likable schlub achieves success through grit and determination.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • Adam Pally stars as a salty schlub who has discovered a big, ratty gym bag that’s actually a time machine.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2017
  • And though not all of them make economic sense for us schlubs at the back, a significant number are likely to be rolled out cabin-wide in the years to come.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The rotting remains of some schlub's prediction the Vikings would finish 9-7 and make the playoffs.
    — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Because of his talent for playing unglamorous slobs and schlubs, Giamatti is an easy actor to typecast.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
  • And carrying his inevitable thirtysomething disillusionment in a little schlub around the midriff, for sure.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Why cast a hearing actor with tremendous charisma next to a deaf actor who is made out (in costuming, grooming and general deportment) to be a schlub?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • De Niro plays a no-talent schlub and aspiring stand-up who kidnaps a Johnny Carson-like talk show host played by Lewis.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • But there’s almost too much to explain, beginning with the idea that someone like Kat, even in the throes of heartache, would marry a schlub like Charlie without a prenup.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • These days any old schlub can pilot a drone without cratering it, what with good old autopilot tech, but there are drone pilots out there whose abilities push the limits of human cognition.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 June 2018
  • But Douglas was middle-aged, graying, odd-looking, even a little jowly — by industry standards, practically a schlub.
    — Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Samet, cynically defending his right to be an isolationist schlub, dismisses justice and community as naïve ideals.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Avenatti has emerged as the unlikely voice of the underdog while out-classing a bunch of establishment schlubs with his impeccable style and cool-as-a-cucumber demeanor.
    — Rachel Dodes, Vanities, 17 May 2018
  • Galifianakis, a man who has built his career on playing the socially awkward schlub, might not initially seem like the most obvious candidate to inspire a horticultural revolution.
    — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The actor neither softens nor romanticizes the countercultural cartoonist, a brilliant schlub whose artistry is inextricable from his Cleveland crab-apple worldview.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The singer’s eventual image as a chubby, jumpsuit-wearing schlub dependent on various pharmaceuticals to hold a tune is a caricature his manager inadvertently helped create.
    — Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Some of these aren't the most gifted of thespians, but any such shortcomings are easily outbalanced by the bulky figure of Valmir do Coco who effortlessly dominates the ensemble as working schlub Tiao.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Much of this underseen indie mockumentary, which starred Seymour Cassel as a slippery film producer who plots to hype an unknown schlub (Francesco Quinn) into the toast of the Cannes Film Festival, was also shot on location, guerrilla-style, this time during the 1995 festivities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026

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