How to Use loon in a Sentence

loon

noun

• Share [Findings] In Maine, a loon stabbed a bald eagle through the heart.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• From somewhere out in the night came the hauntingly wild cry of a loon.
  — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
• And picked the wrong loon to mess with, Jason Bittel writes for Nat Geo.
  — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• The loon breeds in the Arctic tundra during the summer.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• Near the dead eagle, Maine wildlife warden Neal Wykes had found a dead loon chick.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2020
• The dining room's defaced by this tantrum-throwing loon.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
• Lydia comes off like an Altman loon who is soon to be exposed.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
• The stories featured the loon, whale, moose and other animals of the region.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
• Going by a stretch of eight games after his return from knee surgery in mid-January, Ainge might have seemed to be a bit of a loon.
  — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Moose sightings are frequent, as are haunting loon calls.
  — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
• Abnormally cold weather in Wisconsin iced up the wings of migrating loons and caused dozens of them to fall from the sky over the past few days.
  — Ben Kesling, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• The loon has long been a sentinel creature for detecting mercury in our waters.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
• The park is home to a wide variety of birds including loons, herons, eagles and peregrine falcons.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
• The birds are migrating to the Arctic to breed and this loon, which previously showed up at the preserve, may have gotten blown off course, Buzard said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
• Another day, a loon family of three sailed past me, as proudly as if on parade.
  — Susan Lapinski, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
• On Monday, nearly three dozen loon enthusiasts showed up to watch from the shoreline.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• According to the preamble, 30% of dead loons in a Wisconsin study were lead-poisoned.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• At the bottom, a loon, known in Ojibwe re-creation narratives as an Earth-Diver, anchors the remaking of the world.
  — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
• They have been shown to be beneficial to loon production.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
• Many of the property’s 93 guest rooms have lakefront views (as well as loon listening privileges).
  — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• Officials are caring for a common loon and a western grebe that were recovered with oil on their bodies.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Staffers hang out in a lactation pod, in an office where nobody breast-feeds; pledge-drive contributions are heralded with the call of the common loon.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• The new state seal features a loon amid wild rice, to replace the image of a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with a rifle at the ready.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• If reproduction rates had stayed at 1980s levels, the average loon parents in Ontario would now be having four young over a five-year span.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
• With more freezing temperatures possible, more of the birds could come tumbling down, loon experts say.
  — Ben Kesling, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• You’re being challenged by some right-wing loon who’s carrying on about socialism and handouts and taxing and spending.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
• Kravitz is feline and fiercely lovely, a girl with her own private pain and motivations; Dano feints and giggles, a simpering loon.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
• The 2021 Memorial Day weekend also brought other exciting loon news.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
• Ash turned Dina into the breakout character, a brash, bird-loving, oddly logical loon with people skills gleaned from Full Metal Jacket.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Campers venture out into the untrammeled waters for days without seeing another person or hearing anything but the soprano trill of a loon.
  — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024