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.

  • 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.

  • My files are as full as any policy wonk's with scholarly studies demonstrating that using tax lures to attract jobs and taxpayers often ends up robbing not just Peter, but Paul as well.

  • 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."

  • Locked in the Cabinet , Robert Reich's new memoir of his years as labor secretary in the Clinton administration, is an engaging policy memoir: insightful, often witty and, what's most unusual for wonk kiss and tells, easy to read, partly because it's told in long stretches of well-written dialogue that add up to scores of novelistic scenes of Washington at work.


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