How to Use doozy in a Sentence

doozy

noun
  • They say the snowstorm tonight is going to be a doozy.
  • Some of her comments have been real doozies.
  • Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy.
  • The Browns chose a doozy of a time to come back from their bye week.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2020
  • As pranks go, the case of the missing sport coat is a doozy.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In the case of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the story is a doozy.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 7 July 2017
  • This past Sunday's Game of Thrones was a doozy, to say the least.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 May 2019
  • That last one is a doozy — and very much the real thing.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • That was a doozy of a storm, dropping over three feet in the last 72 hours.
    oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Season 5 episode 6 of The Handmaid's Tale is a bit of a doozy, to say the least.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The last 72 hours have been a bit of a doozy for the Trump family.
    Bess Levin, The Hive, 11 July 2017
  • The award for biggest doozy, though, goes to Kraft Heinz Co.
    John D. Stoll, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2019
  • The final month of the season is here and the stretch run is setting up to be a doozy.
    Josh Land, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Well, what a doozy the season 4 premiere of Riverdale was.
    Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 10 Oct. 2019
  • As grudge matches go, this one was a doozy that turned snoozy.
    Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The feds sued Binance on Monday, and the lawsuit is a doozy.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But there are better and worse years, and 2018 is shaping up to be a doozy.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • With at least 59 items on the agenda, the last city council meeting of the year will be a doozy.
    Monroe Trombly, Cincinnati.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • As Wednesday painfully proved, though, the first time is a doozy.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Well, This Is Us fans, the season two finale was a doozy.
    Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The film does kick off with one doozy of a connection to the rampaging posse of The Avengers.
    Author: Katie Walsh, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018
  • This is based on a statement from one of the jurors, and that statement is a doozy.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Still, this spring has been a doozy even by the club’s usual sub-standards.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • And the first weekend of driverless car freedom was a doozy.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The antitrust case of Epic Games v Apple is shaping up to be quite a doozy.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The latest story to drop in the Wall Street Journal‘s series on Facebook is a doozy.
    Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Oil prices have fallen for five straight days now, and Thursday’s drop was a doozy.
    Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • No one ever decreed that the first deal of the trade deadline season has to be a doozy.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • But if seasons past are any guide, stadium prices are still likely to be a doozy.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This one is a doozy and should only be endeavored by serious winter hikers.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 12 Feb. 2024

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