How to Use worrywart in a Sentence

worrywart

noun
  • My father is a real worrywart.
  • This year pop culture saw fit to gift us with not one, but three good-hearted worrywarts who carry their stress in their stomach.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Then came the pandemic and the resurgence of worrywart investing.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • And then there’s our friend the anterior cingulate gyrus, aka the worrywart center, which is more developed in the female brain.
    — Katty Kay, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Yet worrywarts say that while liquidity is plentiful at first when volatility rises, it cannot be relied on if markets stay jumpy for a while.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The world, after all, is a dangerous place and there is always something to frighten professional worrywarts.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Despite Gevinson's obvious efforts, Kate is a whiny, brow-furrowing worrywart.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 July 2021
  • Overthinking neurotic worrywart mothers often really bask in the afterglow of birth.
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 12 July 2017
  • By contrast to his boss, Barker’s partner, Thomas Lewellyn — the book’s narrator — is about 30, married, eager to have a child and rather a worrywart.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Habitual worrywarts—including some practitioners of the dismal science—see ominous signs that America’s record-breaking expansion will soon end.
    — Burton G. Malkiel and Atanu Saha, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Hearing this may come as a relief to anyone who has felt sheepish about constantly changing their personal safety standards, as if the inconsistency reveals some character defect, such as being indecisive or a worrywart.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil's girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2018
  • The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil’s girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • This condition is no secret, but even the typical financial worrywarts have been unperturbed that Netflix is perpetually spending other people’s money to cement itself as a default entertainment option for billions of people.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019

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