How to Use cuckoo in a Sentence

cuckoo

1 of 2 noun

• The clock chimes along with the cuckoo bird, and the wheel spins as well.
  — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
• And Clare keeps on wheedling her way into Irene’s world like a cuckoo.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2022
• The young cuckoo wasp eats the nest’s rightful occupant and its food store.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• A collection of Black Forest cuckoo clocks hangs on a wall near the bar.
  — Carla Meyer, sacbee.com, 23 June 2017
• As dawn broke and the rising sun lit the top of the canopy, the cuckoo finally arrived to investigate.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• Shiki took his pen name from the cuckoo, whose song is said to resemble the sound of someone coughing up blood.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
• Here, for example, is the call of the mangrove cuckoo, a small bird found mainly in coastal South Florida forests.
  — Tarpley Hitt, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Instead, the Cavs' offensive balance went over the cuckoo's nest.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• The lobby sits under a cobalt-blue domed ceiling painted with owls and a cuckoo (coucou in French, a nod to the hotel's name) hidden among the branches.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The river is also home to the willow flycatcher and yellow-billed cuckoo.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• Daddy's little girl is all grown up, which makes Martin's George Banks a little cuckoo.
  — Hilary Weaver, ELLE, 1 June 2022
• This clockwise loop matches the migration of the common cuckoo.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2015
• This member of the cuckoo family is not a seed eater, but often hangs out near my hummingbird feeders in hopes of snatching one out of the air.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• The traditional finery is ornate and the souvenir cuckoo clocks even more so.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• The cuckoos were cuckoo-ing on the hour, and the pendulums were swinging to and fro with each passing second without incident.
  — Peter Wade, Esquire, 4 June 2016
• Jay Qualman is a rare bird in the Detroit jungle: a purebred car cuckoo who nests in the high branches of the automobile business.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 Nov. 2020
• Endangered owls and yellow-billed cuckoos are among birds that nest in the Patagonia Mountains.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2023
• The actions pertain to such species as the yellow-billed cuckoo and Miami tiger beetle, along with bats, salamanders and fish.
  — Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• In it, Vernon tries hard to entertain a new blue avian friend, unaware that Bird is not sentient but rather a wooden cuckoo fallen from a clock.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• So over the years, when neighbors would grumble about peacocks driving them cuckoo, local officials would side with the birds.
  — Patricia Mazzei Alfonso Duran, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• There are some updates that are less groan-worthy, such as Geppetto's myriad cuckoo clocks that adorn the walls of his workshop.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• The common cuckoo, native to the Europe and Asia, is famous for creeping into other birds’ nests and laying an egg, leaving the hapless hosts to raise the chick as their own.
  — David Kjaer, National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2016
• The brain speaks this electrical language and turns the juice into conversation, cuckoos, car horns.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• In the insect world, these include cuckoo bees, cuckoo bumblebees, and cuckoo wasps.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The roadrunner, a member of the cuckoo family, is our local comic.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
• So if there is something that the president does which is cuckoo, that’s our insurance policy.
  — Time, 2 Mar. 2020
• For example, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 6th Symphony simulates a cuckoo with a clarinet, a nightingale with a flute, and a quail with an oboe.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
• Meanwhile, the pigeon parents exit the balcony without a trace, but the young cuckoo returns, as if searching for his foster parents or his home.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• As researchers tracked his flight over 27 countries, a cuckoo became a celebrity and raised questions about how climate change could affect his species’ travel.
  — Rebecca Ratcliffe, Wired, 4 July 2020

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cuckoo

2 of 2 adjective

• The young cuckoo wasp eats the nest’s rightful occupant and its food store.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• Spring training is going to be cuckoo for more than a few clubs.
  — WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• That is truly cuckoo bananas — and that is saying something with this show.
  — refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• In this very cuckoo moment, Double Shot turned sincere, even sad.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 June 2019
• That’s the 52-week range of AMC’s share price, which, to use a technical finance-y term, is totally cuckoo bananas.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• The sun and moon don’t trade off mechanically, as we have been taught by nursery mobiles and cuckoo clocks.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 7 July 2017
• There are two species of roadrunners in the cuckoo family, the greater and lesser roadrunner, and both live in North America.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
• This image of two wasps—a cuckoo wasp and a sand wasp—entering their neighboring nests in a sandy part of Normandy, France, was created on more than just a stroke of luck.
  — Rachael Zisk, Popular Science, 20 Oct. 2020
• In another photo, the bunting is retreating in terror, as the cuckoo squawks directly in its face.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• Alva’s just one of many San Antonians who’s downright cuckoo for Funko Pops.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2018
• For a weary cuckoo chick, a few extra strength-training sessions might make all the difference between booting its fourth and final nest-mate and having to share its chow.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2021
• Hundreds of clocks have passed through the front door over the years: Japanese cuckoo clocks, Swiss clocks that wind by changing temperature, tall grandfathers from the 1700s and baroque-era Morbiers.
  — The Durango Herald, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• Host birds like reed warblers are wise to the possibility of cuckoo parasitism.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
• Locally, this type of bee includes the Sphecodes species, a red and black bee shaped more like a wasp; cuckoo leaf cutter bee, part of the Coelioxys species; the genus Nomada, which looks a lot like a yellow jacket; and many more all over the state.
  — Linnea Covington, The Know, 4 Aug. 2020
• In cases like these, in which subjects are claiming harm from a cuckoo experiment, the system is set up to punish the institution rather than give redress to the subject.
  — Marisa Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• Nearby, Esther’s European Imports comes stocked with dirndls, cuckoo clocks, and cowbells.
  — Raphael Kadushin, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
• To say the world had gone cuckoo for Christian Dior would not be an overstatement; reports show that by 1949, Dior’s confections for the closet accounted for nearly three-quarters of France’s fashion exports.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
• Frank Deschandol's original aim was to photograph the vibrant cuckoo wasp.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2020
• No manual transmission is available, since many of the car’s active-safety systems don’t play nice with the stick, and Audi tossed the last gen’s lightning-quick dual-clutch auto because Americans are cuckoo for pudding-smooth stoplight launches.
  — Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
• Dave Navarro, a guy who’s spent years shredding guitar with Jane’s Addiction and served as a judge on a tattoo reality competition, has probably one of the most wholesome hobbies a rock star could have: collecting cuckoo clocks.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Bears were carved into chairs, grandfather and cuckoo clocks, umbrella stands, settees, tables, bookends and various other art objects.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
• Hashtag patriots are cobbling together a legend around Maricopa that fits into the cuckoo mythology of Trumpism.
  — Author: Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2021
• In some areas of the Coronado National Forest, Bugbee has witnessed herds of unbranded cattle wreaking havoc on cuckoo habitat.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
• These cuckoo conspiracy theories are symptomatic of a shift in global values from the optimism of the 1990s, when America’s liberal democracy was universally admired, to the current era of fear and anger, when democracy is in retreat.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• The movie is a colorful, cuckoo-crazy, sometimes funny, often bewildering experience.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2019
• Generations later, those simple handmade objects evolved further into cuckoo clocks, music boxes and movie projectors.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 12 Jan. 2022
• The young cuckoo wasp eats the nest’s rightful occupant and its food store.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• Spring training is going to be cuckoo for more than a few clubs.
  — WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• That is truly cuckoo bananas — and that is saying something with this show.
  — refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• In this very cuckoo moment, Double Shot turned sincere, even sad.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 28 June 2019

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