Example sentences for: wimp

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

  • In fact, I even feel like a wimp for having to try to curry sympathy for death-row prisoners by pointing out the procedural irregularities in their cases; I oppose executing them even when they are monsters in human form, because, while I can easily understand why someone would want to kill the murderer of their near and dear, I can't at all understand why someone would want to give the state the power to kill them--even if it's not being abused in that exact case, it's going to be, and probably sooner rather than later, as the much-publicized racial statistics of the death penalty's application demonstrate.

  • A breathless Keeping Tabs made it all the way to the end of the story, only to have Dietl, citing his lawyers' advice, wimp out without naming a soul--a decision that instantly shot him to the top of Keeping Tabs' public enemies list.

  • But Dole and his advisers have also sought to turn the toughness that enabled Dole to overcome his injury into an asset, the counterpoint to the Bush "wimp" image that is the other side of the deeply personal contest between the two men.

  • George Bush, you may remember, trailed Gary Hart in 1987 polls, and Newsweek even ran a cover story about Bush and "the wimp factor."

  • Other articles include “Is George Bush a Wimp ?,” “The Moving Spray Can” (on graffiti in England), “On the Pronunciation of Cunnilingus in Dictionaries,” and numerous others on a wide variety of subjects; these are interspersed with short bits and pieces, cartoons, and asides generally attributed to “Folklore” and, presumably, gathered by the editor.


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