How to Use buzzkill in a Sentence

buzzkill

noun

• If this was a buzzkill, there was good reason.
  — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 7 May 2026
• How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
• And wet shoes that can take days to dry are a spring vacation buzzkill.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Not to be a giant buzzkill, but how many people will watch it at all?
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2017
• So yes, one nerf to one super is the right call, as much of a buzzkill as that may be.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Sorry to be a buzzkill, but kids didn’t need the summers to help out there.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
• The biggest buzzkill at any beach is battling crowds.
  — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2026
• Having a reed break in the middle of a session is a buzzkill.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 21 June 2020
• Having a reed break in the middle of a session is a buzzkill.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2021
• Thinking about money can be a buzzkill.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• Nobody wants to be the buzzkill around one of the biggest moments rap’s seen in the last decade.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
• Hahaha girls are such a buzzkill.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
• The latest buzzkill is what is unfolding now.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• Their naïveté mixed with Schrader’s stodgy solemnity is a buzzkill.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
• Waiting ages for your casino winnings to land in your bank account can be such a buzzkill after that big win.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
• Besides running out of food, there are no greater buzzkills at a cookout than food poisoning.
  — Angela Davis, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• The rock music in this production will, no doubt, make a buzzkill out of the Shakespeare purist.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• And while those comps from a decade ago are already a buzzkill, the more recent trends are perhaps even more disconcerting.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024
• Nothing screams buzzkill like 15 reviews.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
• Just because Robert was a buzzkill and disarmed her last week doesn’t mean Norma is giving up hope.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
• In addition to being the worst owner in all of sports, Daniel Snyder is one hell of a buzzkill.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• The main buzzkill, many say, is pitchers using gluey gunk to grip the ball better, enhancing their spin rate and making pitches dance and dart.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
• No one has said, but the buzzkill would be if MLB has no plans to ever return to Oakland.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Overthinking is a surefire buzzkill!
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
• In one photo, the pair is seen with their legs intertwined in prime cuddle position- with a bodyguard as a third wheel just a few inches away, which is kind of a buzzkill.
  — Eileen Reslen, Cosmopolitan, 17 Oct. 2017
• Once again, Derek Hough was a little bit of a buzzkill, saddling Richter with another 6.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
• The novel coronavirus is hands-down the biggest buzzkill of the 21st century.
  — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Which, sorry to be a buzzkill, but the idea that Richard’s beyond timely death has lifted the curse seems unlikely, for a few reasons.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 27 May 2026
• Even if Meghan’s official buzzkill title will likely be the Duchess of Sussex.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Climate policy promises to be the real buzzkill at the G-7 party.
  — David McHugh, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017