Example sentences for: wonk

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

  • For Wolf has never been a wonk or an ideologue.

  • A mock interview with Ricky Martin suggests that he is a secret policy wonk: He reads the New Republic and loves to expostulate on Puerto Rican sugar-cane subsidies and "la domestic policy loca."

  • But you still have to wonder how such a smart policy wonk can fail to be bothered by the perversities and complications of the tax code.

  • Both are trying to recast themselves dramatically: Hillary from her post as a political spouse and amateur policy wonk, Rudy from his job as hands-on city manager.

  • Newsweek 's ebullient cover story calls Hillary Clinton "the hottest commodity in American public life," urging her to run because: 1) She has sacrificed enough of her own ambitions for her husband's career; 2) she's a born policy wonk; and 3) it would strengthen the Clintons' marriage.


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