Example sentences for: know-it-all

How can you use “know-it-all” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her know-it-all persona makes him sick, and without fully realizing what he's doing, he sets about trying to sabotage her candidacy.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • The problem is he's a know-it-all with something negative to say about everything.

  • Chatterbox is intrigued, but not surprised, to learn that his friend Mossberg was a-rockin' and a-rollin' from the age of 9. Indeed, Chatterbox finds it impossible to picture the 9-year-old Mossberg as anything other than a precocious know-it-all.

  • Burton relishes squirting blood in this know-it-all's face: Ichabod is the movie's dashing hero and also the butt of its jokes.


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