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Example sentences for: nerd

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

A true computer nerd might say: I talked with him for six months on Compuserve, then we finally got some good face time at Comdex in Vegas.
In arty circles, he's famous as the highbrow exhibitionist who wrote and starred in My Dinner With Andre , but there's more to Shawn than grandiose nerd angst.
But the popular understanding of nerdiness--that a nerd is an uncool person--doesn't stand the test of time.
As obvious as this insight seems today, though, it wasn't in 1983--Steve Jobs didn't realize it, my computer nerd friends and I didn't realize it and, I suspect, James Surowiecki didn't realize it either.
We see nerds at work, nerds at play (which is to say, at work), nerds in love, and of course some nerd humor.