How to Use kook in a Sentence

kook

noun

• This chill beach town is full of sun, sand, and waves for pros, kooks (beginners), and groms (kids) alike.
  — Yousra Attia, ELLE, 9 June 2023
• When the Dredgers were founded in 1999, they were widely regarded as kooks.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Harold Camping, the guy making these claims is, to be charitable, a kook.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011
• Trump has in the past defended racists and kooks who were part of his broader political tribe.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 May 2018
• The threat of being written off as a kook can loom large for researchers, especially young ones.
  — Diane Peters, Quartz, 15 July 2019
• Almedilla’s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Sunday in Chicago, Mr. Sanders implied that people no longer view him as a Marxist kook.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2019
• At the time, of course, when this came out in 1994, I was said to be like a conspiracy kook to think that someone would be trying to gentrify the Bay Area, much less Oakland.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 8 Oct. 2018
• This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook, and possibly even a murderer.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020
• The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
• Better to support a teen-stalking kook, goes the argument of Roy Moore’s supporters, rather than accept the destruction of your way of life in the hands of Doug Jones.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 10 Dec. 2017
• The most tense sequence in El Camino depends on the gabby old kook from down the hall ever-so-slowly watering plants with a plastic spray bottle.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The French loooove les cookies [lay kook-eeze], and Moko’s super-grainy versions have furnished many a Proustian experience.
  — Belle Cushing, Bon Appetit, 10 May 2017
• The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• How many Americans seem to have forgotten the simplest tool of dealing with witless boors, kooks and bullies: Ignore them.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 May 2017
• Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2020
• The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2018
• Her character Mia is a homebody and kook who, throughout Catastrophe, occasionally shows up to torment her son, Rob, and his wife, Sharon.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 May 2017
• His chosen one — the kook — was brought to life by Lauren Lovette, in a debut that unleashed her character’s free spirit with a glittering, fluid command of the choreography’s quirky twists and turns.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• The media has treated the notion that Russia has personally compromised the president of the United States as something close to a kook theory.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 July 2018
• For perhaps the first time in memory, the fashion-forward Instagram kooks who preen for the cameras outside the shows are dressed the same as an unwittingly hip dad-bod commuter riding the 5:51 from Penn Station to Babylon.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook, finally as an establishment dinosaur — and throughout, as a woman.
  — Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.
  — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
• Performances range from silly to sillier, with Johnson’s Joseph acting like such a kook that Jolliffe is consistently upstaged.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018
• Besides partisans and kooks, who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions?
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2019
• At a stroke, anyone advocating actually leaving the European Union—hitherto known as a Leave voter—was an intransigent kook from the reactionary fringe.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024