Examples of crybaby in a Sentence
“Don't be such a crybaby,” she told her little sister.
car trips that were often spoiled by a couple of crybabies in the back seat
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As children, Keaton often dismissed her younger brother as a crybaby, scaredy cat and a nuisance who was coddled by their mother.
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Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
From the instigator to the crybaby, everyone gets to partake in the seasonal chaos.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Factual: League crybabies can decide who gets to play in their sandbox.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
If whining were an Olympic sport, Finland, Denmark and Sweden might as well skip the competition, because the U.S. surely would sweep the podium with an elite lineup of crybaby football coaches.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2025
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Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
From the instigator to the crybaby, everyone gets to partake in the seasonal chaos.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Factual: League crybabies can decide who gets to play in their sandbox.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025
If whining were an Olympic sport, Finland, Denmark and Sweden might as well skip the competition, because the U.S. surely would sweep the podium with an elite lineup of crybaby football coaches.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Crybaby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crybaby. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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crybaby
noun
cry·ba·by
ˈkrī-ˌbā-bē 
: a person who cries easily or complains often
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