How to Use wimp in a Sentence

wimp

noun

• There’s the box, the wheel, the win and the wimp’s special — the show bet.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2018
• Then there are the wimps who won’t stand up to Pyongyang.
  — Peter Beinart, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• This is no place for wimps — either on the greens or in the men’s locker room.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2019
• That’s the problem with you liberals—you’re a bunch of wimps.
  — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
• Captain America begins as Steve Rogers—a man with the heart of a god and the body of a wimp.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
• So, yeah, some of these guys are real losers and real wimps, OK?
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
• In his most recent escapade, Chad Trammell was a beast by day but a bit of a wimp by night.
  — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Aug. 2017
• My parents found the Duke not very bright, a wimp, and basically a very sad man.
  — Andrew Lownie, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• That jab gets to the heart of these protests: the sense that stay-at-home advocates are gutless wimps willing to let a virus boss us around.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• Flaked oats softened the body a tad, without reducing it to a flabby wimp.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• While the leads all wrestle with their inner wimp, only Mary Ann’s struggle has mortal stakes.
  — John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• And his favorite scene involves an inhuman villain, a feckless wimp, and an old-fashioned tough guy who saves the day.
  — Peter Beinart, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• In the 21st century, they are depicted as sniveling wimps and are reviled.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• From pregnancy to labor pains and giving birth to the growing pains as a first-timer, simply put, motherhood is not for wimps.
  — Alicia Harper, Redbook, 29 Dec. 2011
• No longer a wimp, the ongoing El Niño has already influenced the weather in North America.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2015
• Suddenly, the school wimp who was interested in cards and magic had been turned into a Western archetype: the strong, do-right loner who doesn’t say much.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Through it all the best part of the film remains the dichotomy of a bland wimp (a character Odenkirk plays so well) who can flip the switch to becoming a remorseless killer — and seeing Odenkirk as the one flipping the switch.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2021
• What a wimp, that D.J. Finau wasn’t going to let a little thing like a grotesquely dislocated ankle keep him out of his first Masters.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
• Separately, even weather wimps like myself can deal with it.
  — Nick Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2018
• Cronenberg's online search led him to the weird world of hardcore self-defense videos, a place where titles like Delta Seal Camp promise to exorcise your inner wimp.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2005
• That’s not to say that these classifications — horror buffs, horror wimps — are totally set in stone.
  — Cari Romm, The Cut, 14 June 2018
• Standing alone in the breach, is Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, no wimp on using force, but a believer in trying all other options first.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• This tradition stopped after some people complained (wimps) that Jordan-Hare was too loud and Auburn banned the use of artificial noisemakers.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Kendall is still a wimp who swings between self-satisfaction and an insatiable hunger for reassurance, and Strong is fantastic in his portrayal of this back-and-forth.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Pompeo has gently suggested that Trump is a bit of a wimp, essentially (and correctly) calling him a whiner for his incessant talk about the 2020 election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• Not being wimps means throwing China out of the World Trade Organization or negotiating a free-trade deal.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
• As a result firms are simultaneously accused of being timid wimps and reckless idiots.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• Now, they’re being caricatured as fashion accessories for wimps.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 20 May 2020
• Establishment wimps like Jeb Bush framed their stance as only wanting to allow Christian refugees into the country, but Trump didn’t even try to give his reactionary proposals a humanitarian gloss.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019
• WIMPs are hypothetical particles that many scientists think are a primary component of dark matter.
  — Ian O'Neill, NBC News, 26 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024