How to Use sad sack in a Sentence

sad sack

noun

• Then came a loss to the Habs and another to the sad sack Dead Wings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Jones plays Lance, a bit of a sad sack whose wife left him for a more macho lunk-head.
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2018
• And unlike these five sad sack losers, the Beavers didn’t have to take a plane ride home to compound the misery.
  — oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2019
• The series portrays Paul as both an earnest guy with a good heart, as well as a naïve and gullible sad sack who is the butt of the joke.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
• Over the course of the series, Guillermo has transitioned from sad sack to badass.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Only sad sacks and lunaediesophobes think Monday is the worst day of the week.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• But the carrier that shadows your commute, and parks by your desk, needn’t be a sad sack.
  — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• In the movie, sad sack Miles, played by actor Paul Giamatti, rages briefly against the grape.
  — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 2 Nov. 2017
• Welcome back, to fans and sad sack wasp traps alike, to the craven death pit of greed and egomania that is Succession.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
• Tannhäuser, no longer louche but styled with a shaved head and dressed in baggy black, comes across as a sad sack hanging out at the piano.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• Archiving the past is melancholic by nature, but Schloss was no sad sack.
  — Jamie Hood, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
• Then entered the night ranked 28th overall in the league for 5-on-5 scoring, only better than the likes of Nashville, Dallas and the sad sack Sabres.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• To help give your sad sack lunch an indoor picnic flair, swap out your paper napkins for ones of cloth.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Aug. 2018
• Blackwater makes Larry a compelling mix of self-loathing sad sack and volcanic fury about to erupt.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
• On Wall Street, Twitter was the latest sad sack tech stock to impress with fourth quarter earnings.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
• One brother, George (Plemons), is a kindly sad sack who wants nothing more than to find a wife and settle down.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
• The character is a variation on what Odenkirk plays so well, a charismatic sad sack kicked in the shins by life one too many times.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
• Jo sees her best friend being an absolute sad sack and decides to do something about it.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• Stan is merely the sad sack who can’t stay away, shakily throwing coins into the peep show machine to see her once again.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• Feeling like a sad sack of coal during the holidays is far from unusual.
  — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
• His playful, sad sack persona was in direct contrast to some of the harder core hip hop that had become popular in the late 1980s.
  — Lisa Respers France and Andy Rose, CNN, 16 July 2021
• For a Hall of Fame pass-rusher who has been properly honored for his accomplishments, this was one sad sack of a move.
  — Gene Frenette, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• Hilary is something of a classic character: a sad sack.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
• Shawn Kilgore is Charlie, and mixes the sad sack’s despair with a spark of optimism.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• His middle-aged version of Alex is a bit of a sad sack, which isn’t exactly a stretch for the actor, who is familiar with the character type from SNL.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
• Throw these fragile sad sacks in the recycling bin (or save them for upcoming bad-weather days) and replace them with this year’s models!
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
• Outie Mark is such a glum sad sack that nonwork scenes tend to drag even after he gets involved with people who claim to have found a way to undo the severance process.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
• Another that dealt with a meme factory ended up making Ralph (who in the sequence took all sorts of abuse in order to make people laugh) feel like too much of a sad sack.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
• Stefan, if something of a sad sack, is also a charming big galoot who sincerely believes in love.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• The truth is that Dermott and Hank are half-brothers by way of Doc being … well, an even more nauseating sad sack than previously thought.
  — Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024