How to use cute in a sentence
40 example sentences · adjective
Cute means possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior. Example: “Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.”
Examples of cute by meaning
adjectivePossessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants...
- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
adjectiveLovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
adjectiveSexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- He's got such cute buns.
- I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.2010, Vernon J. Geberth, Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation, page 116
adjectiveAffected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
- "This time we aren't interested in anything cute or cryptic.1957 May, William P. McGivern, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 102, column 2
adjectiveMentally keen or discerning (See also acute).
- Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
- 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses.1908, Winston Churchill, Letter to his fianceé Clementine
- "The police are cute enough, of course, to choose either a Roman Catholic or a materialist as the magistrate."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...
adjectiveEvincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
- Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.1963, The Tablet, volume 217
More sentences with cute
- This plush toy is so cute and soft — I want it!From the entry plush
- Her room is full of kawaii, with pastel plushies, anime posters, and cute stationery.From the entry kawaii
- Lots of girls in our school think he's cute because of his Bieberish hairstyle.From the entry Bieberish
- After school, Payton started a vidchat with the cute boy from his printmaking class.From the entry vidchat
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cute girls doing cute things.From the entry cute girls doing cute things
- "You two should have dinner. Here you are, under the same roof, both cute as corn!"From the entry cute as corn
- He's so cute I want to squeeze him — his tail, his little ears, his absolute squirrelliness!From the entry squirrelliness
- She was cute, but all her friends were busted.From the entry busted
- Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.From the entry hang
- I really love to pet cute puppies.From the entry pet
- Aw, you've got such a cute baby bird!From the entry aw
- He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.From the entry kitty
- That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!From the entry doggy
- I love all animals, specially cute furry ones.From the entry specially
- Aw, that's a cute little birdie. Is it a budgie?From the entry birdie
- Shoutout cats. Aren't they just so cute?From the entry shout-out
- Look at that gerbil and his little grabbies! So cute.From the entry grabby
- You're so cute, I could just eat you up!From the entry eat up
- (example) Those glasses just look too cute for you!From the entry backward compliment
- I made a cute family of pet rocks by putting eye, nose, and mouth stickers on big stones.From the entry pet rock
- I changed into cute dolphin shorts for a summer vibe.From the entry dolphin shorts
- She's a cute little pound cake.From the entry pound cake
- In that moment, I finally saw through her; this petition drive had nothing to do with her love for animals, and everything to do with impressing Michael, the cute intern.From the entry see through
- These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME. From the entry growth
- If I’m running around for errands, I want to look cute also mah.2024 March 28, Benjamin Tan, quoting Ursula Soh, “In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the…. From the entry mah
- Cloti and Clerith shippers have gifted us with sultry fanfic, flashy video edits, and cute art.2024 May 16, Ana Diaz, “Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth set the fandom back 20 years”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024. From the entry Clerith
- Actually, I think they call it a "hamlet." That's how cute it is.2023, Sam Esmail, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, spoken by Amanda (Julia Roberts). From the entry hamlet
- You pick off the girl you think is cute and ask her the basics.2023 March 22, TFM Bart, “Your Average Night at a Freshman Bar”, in Total Frat Move, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023. From the entry rizzler
Meaning of cute
- adjective Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- adjective Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- adjective Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
Questions about cute in a sentence
- How do you use cute in a sentence?
- Cute is used as an adjective. For example: “Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.”
- What is a short sentence with cute?
- “He's got such cute buns.”
- What does cute mean?
- Cute means possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cute (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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