How to Use wimp in a Sentence

wimp

noun
  • And this name sounds like a wimp to me.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • There’s the box, the wheel, the win and the wimp’s special — the show bet.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2018
  • This is no place for wimps — either on the greens or in the men’s locker room.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
  • That’s the problem with you liberals—you’re a bunch of wimps.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • So, yeah, some of these guys are real losers and real wimps, OK?
    — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But the character, in Groening’s view, turned out to be a wimp.
    — Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Flaked oats softened the body a tad, without reducing it to a flabby wimp.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Kelly, a bit of a spice wimp, needed sips of the sweet pickle lemonade to handle the heat.
    — Kelly Tyko, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • My parents found the Duke not very bright, a wimp, and basically a very sad man.
    — Andrew Lownie, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Whoopi Goldberg doesn't want to raise a generation of wimps, thank you very much.
    — Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 11 June 2025
  • Your wimp of a husband should be there during this conversation.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
  • In his most recent escapade, Chad Trammell was a beast by day but a bit of a wimp by night.
    — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Aug. 2017
  • All nudity in my films is a result of Shauna pushing me and calling me a wimp.
    — Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
  • And his favorite scene involves an inhuman villain, a feckless wimp, and an old-fashioned tough guy who saves the day.
    — Peter Beinart, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • While the leads all wrestle with their inner wimp, only Mary Ann’s struggle has mortal stakes.
    — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Captain America begins as Steve Rogers—a man with the heart of a god and the body of a wimp.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • From pregnancy to labor pains and giving birth to the growing pains as a first-timer, simply put, motherhood is not for wimps.
    — Alicia Harper, Redbook, 29 Dec. 2011
  • In the 21st century, they are depicted as sniveling wimps and are reviled.
    — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
  • That’s not to say that these classifications — horror buffs, horror wimps — are totally set in stone.
    — Cari Romm, The Cut, 14 June 2018
  • Share The patriarch of the Berenstain Bears’ family is not a wimp.
    — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 15 June 2025
  • Blake is not an emasculated wimp; his confidence is complete, his suavity bordering on the toxic.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Now, they’re being caricatured as fashion accessories for wimps.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 20 May 2020
  • Advertisement Similarly, no one is going to think Mullin is a wimp.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As a result firms are simultaneously accused of being timid wimps and reckless idiots.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • The hard labor of making Wabanaki baskets Wabanaki basket-making isn’t for wimps.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Eventually Sutton calls Amanda a wimp for not wanting any part of any confrontation, and Amanda tells her not to call her a wimp in her own home.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • No longer a wimp, the ongoing El Niño has already influenced the weather in North America.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2015
  • The real star of the show is, of course, Battle Cat, the giant green armored tiger whose alias is Cringer, Prince Adam’s wimp of a house cat.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Kendall is still a wimp who swings between self-satisfaction and an insatiable hunger for reassurance, and Strong is fantastic in his portrayal of this back-and-forth.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Cronenberg's online search led him to the weird world of hardcore self-defense videos, a place where titles like Delta Seal Camp promise to exorcise your inner wimp.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2005

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