Sentence examples for wimp by from inspiring English sources

Yet Obama either failed to ask them or went ahead, nevertheless, because he was afraid he would have been called a wimp by Republicans if he hadn't.

Within minutes of her success Sotherton was called a "wimp" by Van Commenee, her then coach, for not producing a better performance in the 800 metres, the final event, which could have brought her a silver.

But the energy of the cast never let anything drag for long, and their acrobatic exploits would make any arm-chair critic feel a bit of a wimp by comparison.

A farmer who complains of being depressed will usually be labelled crazy, whiner or wimp by fellow farmers.

"Test-drive a pogrom, and get back to us about your shpilcha-tsurris!" But it's even truer, I think, to say that I'm a wimp by choice.

Some people are concerned about coming off looking like a wimp by ordering mild sauce, however sweating profusely and downing glass after glass or milk will most likely make you look worse.

The team aim to find WIMPs by using silicon and germanium crystals which if hit by a WIMP would trigger vibrations in the crystals.

So when Democrats talk about Muslim hatred, they're just begging to be called wimps by all those right-wing bloggers who have Machiavelli's dictum -- better to be feared than loved -- tattooed across their chests.

As a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, in the 1970s, Kolb, now the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UChicago, helped lay the foundations for WIMPs by exploring the limits to weak interaction.

In fact, many of those grim-faced forebears captured in sepia make us look like wimps by comparison.

When I returned to school after a long illness, I was a piss-weak wimp surrounded by toughies with 20-hole Doctor Martens.