How to Use geek in a Sentence
geek
noun- He was a real geek in high school.
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Again, this sounds like the sort of thing geeks said in the 1990s.
— The Economist, 28 June 2018 -
For the notebook geek (yes, that’s a thing) in your life.
— Michael Calore, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021 -
So how can a true Star Wars geek stand out from the pack?
— David Kender, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020 -
Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
— Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023 -
For just a few hours, the geeks are the rock stars and the popular kids.
— Sarah Kliff, Vox, 30 May 2018 -
Once craft beer was the domain of a small cult of brew geeks.
— WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020 -
In the end, though, Preller remains a baseball geek of the best kind.
— Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022 -
The good news is that at least one geek may be a convert.
— Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023 -
But then Ohana feels like a home for the proud music geek.
— Steve Baltin, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021 -
Her boyfriend, Ethan, for one thing, who was the real survival geek of the two of them.
— Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022 -
The guy sitting in the back wore some kind of t-shirt about a geek ghetto squad.
— Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 June 2017 -
Every car geek on earth dreamed of getting all three in the same place at the same time.
— Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 5 July 2020 -
The school’s very first team was comprised solely of STEM geeks.
— Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 12 May 2017 -
For a certain kind of vinyl geek, it’s like Christmas in June.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 9 June 2021 -
Ask Clay: What is the difference between a geek and a nerd and wonk?
— John D'anna, azcentral, 23 Apr. 2018 -
By night — or really, all the time — the 40 year old is a music geek.
— Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017 -
Still, whiskey geeks who sip it straight will like its spicy follow through.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024 -
The major draw for hard-core film geeks will be the visuals.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2023 -
No doubt about it: the Paris Air Show is an aerospace geek’s paradise.
— Washington Post, 21 June 2017 -
There will be people on dates and magic geeks in sweater vests.
— Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Mike is the first geek to undergo a makeover this season.
— Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 20 July 2022 -
Fandom is not a boy thing, geek culture is not a boy thing.
— Adrienne Gaffney, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017 -
But weather geeks are quick to point to 1949 as an exception that makes the rule.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Shotwell had no desire to spend the next four years of her life considered a geek.
— Eric Berger, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Hardwick founded Nerdist in 2008 as a go-to source for nerd news and all things geek from comics to video games.
— Brittany Shoot, Fortune, 15 June 2018 -
But grammar geeks have complained of its overuse for many years.
— WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Andy Mullins is the coffee geek who figures out which coffees to serve and with what.
— Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018 -
Now onto one of my favorite wine regions in the world that no one really talks about except wine geeks like me.
— Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024 -
The tension between Tyler and Kate is tangible, but both are science geeks, albeit very hot ones.
— Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
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