drama queen

noun

: a person given to often excessively emotional performances or reactions

Examples of drama queen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Spivey is a delight as her sidekick with a masterful side-eye, a drama queen who lives to spill the tea. —

Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2024 Yet even Bergman, for all his asceticism, had an austere inner drama queen. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024 April, a glamorous blond therapist, seems like a drama queen. —

Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023 The lionfish is the drama queen of the sea. —

Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 Is Jeff really that much of a drama queen? —

Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021 Our truck is a bit of a drama queen. —

Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2021 Like a drama queen writing her will, New York is perpetually and loudly dying. —

Photographs By Nina Westervelt, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022 Spirit was the headstrong drama queen while Opportunity was the overachiever, according to team members. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022

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