How to Use skeptic in a Sentence

skeptic

noun

• He is a skeptic and a cynic.
• Skeptics have pointed out flaws in the researchers' methods.
• You can believe in ghosts if you like, but I'm still a skeptic.
• But the rest of us, even the skeptics, are ensnared in the same structures.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• There’s always going to be the skeptics and the purists and the armchair critics.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Many of the same skeptics were present in the Senate gallery on Thursday, cheering when the vote passed.
  — Harm Venhuizen, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• To skeptics, all such talk may seem not just warm and fuzzy, but also soft and squishy.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Some skeptics have said patients might not notice the effects of the drug.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• Profits in 2023 declined, so skeptics think the good times no longer roll.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• This recipe may change the minds of Brussels sprouts skeptics in your family.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• And yes, skeptics who want to test the technology by putting obstacles in the way.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The free speech skeptics might want to read up on the history of abolitionism.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• To critics and skeptics of their work, their ascent to fame seems eerily sudden and too good to be true.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• At the same time, skeptics attempted to debunk the story by focusing on the lack of proof that Casey was in Madrid.
  — Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• Perhaps more important, whether or not the skeptics like it, the United States has been supporting Ukraine since the start of the war.
  — Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
• Even now, skeptics note, LIV has not been around long enough to participate in the system.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• But there are some skeptics who think Nvidia may be overvalued.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Some of these skeptics seem to doubt any data about out-migration.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• Then, an air purifier sounds like a solid idea even to the skeptics.
  — Grace Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2023
• But the past two years have stretched even Pelletier’s ability to win over skeptics.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Even then, however, Frain says there were Ugg-boot skeptics.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2023
• Many start out as skeptics and three weeks later are stunned at the improvements their bodies have made.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024
• McCarthy and Biden are both working to sell the deal to skeptics at the ideological edges of their own parties.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
• Despite the early skeptics, Frawley was known as a good actor.
  — Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
• The marquee flashed Yankees vs. Twins, but that served as an undercard to the juicier event, a matchup between the spinmeister and the spin skeptic.
  — Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
• And yet even for Barbie skeptics, the approach feels fun, and it’s served up with a wink, like something adults will enjoy as much as little kids.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• Paulina Stevens: And so people would come in drunk or people would just come in a lot more kind of skeptics or whatever.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Among the skeptics is one former coach of an NBA player who got sent to prison after being convicted of a felony.
  — Rob Book, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• But skeptics say that even if that plan pans out, revenue is still years away and will hardly be enough to make up for falling oil returns in the future.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Biden’s team, in an implicit response to Ukraine aid skeptics, emphasized that much of the money would be spent in the United States.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024