How to Use wannabe in a Sentence

wannabe

noun

• And what of the slew of wannabes across the commonwealth?
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 13 May 2018
• Or is that just the grandiose thinking of a wannabe-savior?
  — Claudia Rowe, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
• Butler’s head turned to get a second look at the wannabe Sophia.
  — David Jerome, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• So pick up a tube and throw it in the stocking of the dancer/performer/wannabe Rockette in your life.
  — Allure, 17 Dec. 2017
• Once upon a time, this was a clear path to success for GOP wannabes.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• But for Rozzi wannabes, the Fourth of July is a holiday not to be missed.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• Not faux drums played by Fluff the Marshmallow wannabe.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 19 Dec. 2018
• That was in her Aughties guise as a Suze Orman wannabe.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• Or a death march of also-rans and wannabes tumbling out on stage like clowns from a small car?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 26 June 2019
• Warren used to just be a wannabe Bernie Sanders, the man of the people railing at fat cats on Wall Street.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• Prime-time-soap wannabes spread like kudzu across the three networks as the 1980s unfolded.
  — Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2019
• Jones turns both sides of Two-Face into a limp wannabe Joker.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• So what if the game was a wannabe of the annual Army-Navy spectacle?
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2022
• But thankfully the only injury suffered was to the pride of the wannabe perp.
  — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2019
• Margie is a wannabe novelist who spends a lot of her time speaking about the Agony of Being an Artist.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 27 Mar. 2017
• But that separates the girls from the women, the professionals from the wannabe.
  — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 10 May 2018
• The war in Ukraine drew armed wannabe-soldiers to the embassy volunteering to fight.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• There were a few gaffes, but nothing that would rise to the level of candidacy-killing flubs by statewide wannabes in the past.
  — Dara Kam, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Try to imagine how special that was for a teenager and radio wannabe!
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2019
• But there appears to be a new breed of a cop wannabe, one that cruises using only their hard drive.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• The whole process reinforced the image of the Rams as college football wannabes, begging and scrambling for a date to the big dance.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• My homeschooling wannabe mama heart kind of aches over all this screen time.
  — The Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
• What’s the difference between Chris Doyle and a Loser wannabe?
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• Every cinephile and spy wannabe has pondered the immortal question: Who's the one, true James Bond?
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
• Others see him as a vigilante and police wannabe who never should have been armed in Kenosha in the first place.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2021
• The gap between Big Ten royalty and Big Ten wannabes seems wider than ever.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• Among the visitors during the recording were some earnest young wannabes who called themselves Pink Floyd.
  — Tim De Lisle, Newsweek, 14 May 2017
• Trump courtiers and wannabes might mill around the lobby of the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue that bears his name.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
• By contrast, the Silicon wannabes tend to put all their eggs in one basket, and when that basket’s contents spill out, there’s little to fill it up again.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• There’s a reason uptight parents of the ’80s were less than thrilled at the thought of their preteen daughters being wannabes, as Madonna fans were labeled in the media.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024