Example Sentences

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Mackey, but with all the wits of one of Michael Bay’s lunkheaded “Pain & Gain” crew.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

Luckily, he’s as endearingly dim as before, sorting through his unresolved feelings for Jane with lunkheaded sincerity.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

Conor is impossible not to like; hardworking and kind, he’s capable of 33 perfect push-ups and a killer slap shot, but still says lovably lunkheaded stuff like, “Someone should declare Taco Bell a national treasure.”

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018

It's called Olympus Has Fallen and, while that title makes it seem more like a lunkheaded action movie than a romantic comedy, I'm convinced that it represents Butler's big shot at romcom redemption.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

I’m just a lunkheaded cowpuncher out of a job.

From Crooked Trails and Straight by Hutchison, D. C.