How to Use dolt in a Sentence

dolt

noun

• What a dolt I've been!
• Like selling Europe’s elite on how much of a dolt Trump was, this is an easy sell for Lula.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Bring it on hit me* to a large male who told him off golly just imagine what the unhinged teeny dolt could do an a good day.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
• The temptation is to think dolts at the Pentagon don’t care enough to outfit troops with modern gear.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
• Some of his classmates had scrawled messages portraying him as a dolt.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2010
• But in the wake of Charlottesville, only a dolt would believe that explanation.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
• The dolt to your right has essentially forced you into doing this, due to their careless parking and not having obeyed the rule to always park in the center of a parking spot.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Izzard plays Bertie as a dolt and a reactionary boob, in line with the movie’s opinion of anti-immigrant sentiment in present-day Europe.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• The ongoing melodrama has revealed Greg Norman to be a dolt and Phil Mickelson a bumbler.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 9 June 2022
• The thing is, a person using their horn in this aggressive manner is seemingly saying that the other driver is a complete dolt.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Some dolt might decide to try and ram the cicada or take driving actions to avoid running into them, doing so at the peril of other nearby drivers and pedestrians.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• My three-year-old understands on-demand, streaming, but Alabama’s Secretary of State is still flipping channels like a dolt?
  — al.com, 24 July 2019
• His horrifying misrule convinced even die-hard autocrats that the country could not survive with an incompetent dolt at the apex of power.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Aug. 2021
• Democratic National Committee boss Tom Perez is a profane dolt and the party seems to care only about regaining power.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
• When Lukashenko first rose to power in 1994, the budding autocrat was perceived as little more than a dolt, an empty suit, a pig farmer who few in Minsk’s political ranks took seriously.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
• After all, those sipping the tea were wealthy and thus successful, while the dolts reading think tank reports were just bureaucrats, one Administration official groused.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Feb. 2018
• Kirk Schulz, the Washington State president and a chemical engineer, can’t be thrilled that his university is now synonymous with an anti-vaxxer dolt.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• Be prepared for an even more authoritarian decent when the curtain is pulled back on this totally unwizardly dolt and his klan of dangerous fools.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Never forget that conventional wisdom in 1981 regarded Reagan as a Hollywood dolt.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2017
• Social media posts have characterized the play’s critics as literary dolts and supporters as liberals without morals who advocate violence against the president.
  — Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2017
• Cyrano's desolation is tempered by a begrudging affection for Christian, who is just tongue-tied enough to be endearing without being an entirely hopeless dolt in Jenner's appealing performance.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024