Sentence examples for shmo from inspiring English sources

Faith had a memory: opening night of Gypsy, when she arrived and there was such applause and she looked over her shoulder for ETHEL MERMAN, and LENA HORNE said, "It's for you, you shmo".

But he didn't help himself by behaving like a shmo (a cleaned-up version of another popular Yiddish word for jerk that also mean penis).

We are served these satisfying illusions — that we, the audience, get to help make the records we will be compelled to buy, that average shmoes can toil away for years and be rewarded for it in the eleventh hour, etc.

"Oh, man, I've got Joe Shmo behind the plate that doesn't call a strike and doesn't like young guys or whatever it was, wind is blowing out here in Baltimore, what am I going to do?