How to Use geek in a Sentence

geek

noun
  • He was a real geek in high school.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mike is the first geek to undergo a makeover this season.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • This year's swag pile is full of high-value geek goodies.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Among its geeks were freaks, some of whom indeed rocked Birkenstocks.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • For beer geeks, festivals are a chance to check a brew off the beer bucket list or, at the least, the Untapped beer app.
    Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2018
  • Now the software geek turned activist reflects on 25 years of the struggle.
    The Denver Post, 14 July 2019
  • But the geeks shall inherit the earth: The nerds rush a rival frat and beat the Alpha Betas at their own game.
    EW.com, 31 May 2024
  • Kim is very human-centric, which can be hard to scale, and Lee is an M.I.T. tech geek who knows how to scale things.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Yet Jeff has the look, and temperament, of a deeply anxious geek.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 June 2022
  • Shop Now at Flighty Flightradar24 is a favorite app among fellow aviation geeks.
    Harrison Pierce, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024

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