How to Use weirdo in a Sentence

weirdo

1 of 2 noun
  • Not bad for a bunch of weirdos.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Were a bunch of weirdos that do weird pursuits.
    Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The weirdos are the best part of this and, frankly, every movie.
    Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Evan Ratliff is a total weirdo.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
  • True to noir form, it’s pumped up on twists, weirdos and bloodshed.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The fairy tale weirdo in me has no choice but to love the wolf with wolves for hands and feet.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • This run is for you, my wonderful weirdos.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Some weirdness will persist—and yet the weirdos will be gone.
    Sheon Han, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And if not, and if someone wants to go, what a weirdo, okay fine, all good.
    H. Alan Scott jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Restaurants, shops, and parks — lots of old weirdos hanging around.
    Katie McDonough, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Getting a chance to come and play a weirdo is really fun.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2026
  • These decaf weirdos have lost sight of the true purpose of coffee.
    Jim Gaffigan, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Wow, what performance art, this guy is a weirdo or wacko,’ hey, that’s fine, too.
    Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 25 May 2018
  • Gus created a host of weirdos, rejects, and more in the book.
    Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This is a great night for weirdos, says John Waters, who would know.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Every city’s got that one weirdo kid making strange music.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Such figures are often weirdos—though perhaps that’s too strong a word.
    Scott Borchert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • So no, don’t get your hopes up for a Kane & Lynch sequel, weirdos.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Some of our kids are mini weirdos — adorable, yes, but also quirky and offbeat as hell.
    Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Cash’s foray into weirdo fashion has been a long time in the making.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Paul is a weirdo with beady serial-killer eyes and a lengthy criminal record.
    Sarah Hagi, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Speaking of weirdos, why doesn’t everyone have the same response?
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The Westside Pavilion gave me my first chance to up my weirdo status.
    Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The heroine of the piece is a naked mole rat named Sweety, a conspicuous weirdo.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Fresh weirdos appear each year to replenish the pool of suspects and victims.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The other queens perceived her as a weirdo and bullied her a bit for not being a glamazon pageant queen.
    Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For the weirdos and misfits celebrating the creepiest night of the year.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2017
  • There appeared to be something about being a weirdo that could uncork your mind and allow new ideas to flow.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Yes, the mouse-deer is a bit of a weirdo, but that’s not why biologists were shocked to see one on a trail camera.
    Melissa Locker, Smithsonian, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Explain that your weirdo hybrid won’t jump other cars in the normal way then find a neighbor who can help.
    Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026

weirdo

2 of 2 adjective
  • The fairy tale weirdo in me has no choice but to love the wolf with wolves for hands and feet.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025
  • And if not, and if someone wants to go, what a weirdo, okay fine, all good.
    H. Alan Scott jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This weird little cave, a mischievous sort of teenage, weirdo zone.
    Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
  • He wasn’t seen as a drifter weirdo, but embraced as a friend and a brother.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Tyler, The Creator has had his fair share of weirdo run-ins already this year.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Winnebago parked down the street and invites this weirdo inside.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Sweet, crisp, refreshing, a little sour, a little classic, doesn’t turn your tongue brown or give you weirdo breath.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 June 2025
  • His wife is played by the one and only Franklin, who also has to deal with the Blues Brothers' weirdo order.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 21 June 2025
  • Featuring all the wealth and drama that makes a show like this successful, only that these women are all slightly turned up on the weirdo scale.
    Sarah Hagi, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
  • In under five years, foldables have gone from weirdo hobbyist gizmos to stable, predictable devices.
    WIRED, 24 July 2023
  • Beharie is particularly vibrant in the thin part, and her version of Casey is a weirdo prone to doing funny voices.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Contemporary Slovenia’s style of weirdo winemaking is alive and well in Styria.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For every new cohort of clubby punch-line comedians and truth-telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But at least Kristen Wiig provided reliable laughs as weirdo singing sister Dooneese.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
  • It's made slightly better by its sniper tower Gigantamax form, but there's no saving this humanoid weirdo of a Pokémon.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Keaton, in other words, makes Wayne a rather likable weirdo — one of Burton’s signature sympathetic misfits.
    Vulture, 17 June 2023
  • This whole concluding sequence is meant to look and sound like some weirdo mad scientist stuff, between the androids’ cyberpunk goggles and the squishy noises the wriggling creatures make.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025
  • My constituents, and a majority of this country, put Trump in the White House, not this unelected, weirdo billionaire.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • That slanted bad parent-good child characterization too often results in movies featuring kids who are, if not outright cruel, pretty freakin’ mean to their weirdo parents.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 July 2024
  • The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.
    Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025
  • His journey from town weirdo to ungainly hero is the most fully realized, and Cole adds a delightfully peculiar energy to his father-son scenes with Likes.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The horror-comedy sequel returns Samara Weaving as Grace, a newlywed who lived through a bloody night being hunted by her new weirdo demon cult in-laws.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But Torres is the real thing—a visionary weirdo who delivers on the artistic, comedic, and political potential of outsider identity.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 7 June 2024
  • These days, the most famous weirdo wine is probably pét-nat, a fashionable abbreviation for a fashionable French style of winemaking, pétillant naturel.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Isn’t there something comforting about weirdo citizens dominating local government meetings with their niche, single-minded interests, even when the world has ended?
    EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Victor’s characters were magnetically awkward, their address was intimate and direct, and their creator scanned as a pretty weirdo with a tap on the discourse and on the possibilities of the contemporary internet.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025

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