How to Use nerd in a Sentence

nerd

noun

• He dresses like a nerd.
• The jock, the loser, the brainy nerd—think The Breakfast Club.
  — Annalise Mabe, Men's Health, 22 Feb. 2022
• The guys who were the heads of the club were track kids; fit, secret nerds.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
• Turns out d&d was no longer the game of pariahs and nerds.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 29 Jan. 2018
• This ornery golf nerd might be the best thing that’s happened to the game.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
• There was the jock, the nerd, the artist, and the foreign-exchange student.
  — A.o. Scott, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
• Louise Miller is a high school nerd who doesn't quite fit in.
  — Madison Douglas, Seventeen, 2 Feb. 2023
• After the nerds take back the school with one monologue, Alvin leaves the gym.
  — refinery29.com, 1 June 2023
• Alvin is a nerd who gets bullied all the time at school.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
• For the non-film nerds among you, this is a killer lineup.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Here's a top-shelf gift for the wine lover who's also a wine nerd.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
• Alvin is a nerd who gets bullied all the time at school.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2021
• There's parts of yourself that could be a nerd, a gamer or a jock.
  — Caitlin Hernández, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• The astute nerd will ask why not just keep the ISS at the same low pressure as the suit.
  — Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Its à la carte menu feels like one for a true food nerd.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 8 Sep. 2022
• The outlet even laid it all out in a graph for all you nerds out there.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 21 Sep. 2017
• There's a lot that's new about the latest version, known to BMW nerds as the G20.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2018
• We long-term Kiefer nerds may not learn much, but so what?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• There's Pink Ladies, there's T-Birds, there's jocks, there's nerds.
  — Victoria Edel, People.com, 9 July 2025
• Pick a new board game Two nerds looking for a date night?
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2020
• To the world around us, black children didn’t have a place in nerd culture.
  — Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
• But that’s just part of what makes him, all over again, a nerd in a monster’s body.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• But Fraser was a bit of a tech nerd and was well-versed in the e-commerce site.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
• Still, Nel seems to know the dangers of letting nerds run wild.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 June 2017
• And where there are true crime nerds, there might just be money.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 May 2025
• Then there's the fact that the team at Mr Porter are, well, for lack of a better term, fashion nerds.
  — Max Berlinger, GQ, 3 Nov. 2017
• Jennifer Lawrence just clowned you all on day one, nerds.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 3 Nov. 2017
• What's more, the clicking noise is now louder, which is sure to please all the gadget nerds out there.
  — Ben Coxworth july 09, New Atlas, 9 July 2025
• This is the preferred place in K-town for pour-over nerds and really strong iced coffee—shelves are stocked with a who’s who of roasters, like Ceremony, Stumptown, Devocion, and others.
  — Khushbu Shah, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 July 2025