How to Use buzzkill in a Sentence

buzzkill

noun

• For Katz, that’s a buzzkill of a way to end a great day.
  — Joe Lindsey, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2011
• What's the big deal?More than two drinks can be a buzzkill for skin.
  — Krista Bennett Demaio, Cosmopolitan, 2 Jan. 2015
• How to not feel like a needy buzzkill, and how to not make your friends feel like stooges.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2023
• But new, up-close images of Mars proved to be a buzzkill.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 27 Sep. 2016
• 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
• Sorry to be a buzzkill, but kids didn’t need the summers to help out there.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
• Having a reed break in the middle of a session is a buzzkill.
  — Parker Hall, Wired, 21 June 2020
• 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
• The rock music in this production will, no doubt, make a buzzkill out of the Shakespeare purist.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• 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
• But then—smack!—there's the biggest summer buzzkill: the fresh, itchy, welt of a mosquito bite.
  — Felicity Warner, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
• Price: Free Best for: Just about everyone, though the time limit is a buzzkill.
  — Christopher Null, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Spring break buzzkill: Your booze-y drink can be packed with empty calories.
  — Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
• Watching the up and down, up and down of the crowd was a bit like watching an outdoor version of the State of the Union address without the buzzkill of Democrats who refuse to play along.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The novel coronavirus is hands-down the biggest buzzkill of the 21st century.
  — Matt Koesters, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Besides running out of food, there are no greater buzzkills at a cookout than food poisoning.
  — Angela Davis, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Even if Meghan’s official buzzkill title will likely be the Duchess of Sussex.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Luckily, there are ways to act without being a buzzkill.
  — Dalvin Brown, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• The Spurs unraveled without their best player, losing the game by two points and setting in motion a buzzkill of a series sweep for Golden State.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• Climate policy promises to be the real buzzkill at the G-7 party.
  — David McHugh, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Airbnb has been testing such buzzkill tools in Australia since October 2021.
  — WIRED, 22 Aug. 2022
• Humans have been acting like buzzkills, turning on the overhead lights at the fireflies' summer party with street lamps, floodlights and LEDs.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Then came the buzzkill: This original map won’t be good for much longer, cosmically speaking.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024