How to Use loonie in a Sentence

loonie

noun

• While the release of the $1 coin in Canada, dubbed the loonie, stymied that plan, the name stuck.
  — Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017
• And the greenback dropped on Friday against most G-10 peers, led by the loonie and kiwi.
  — Dana Pardini, Bloomberg.com, 3 Dec. 2017
• The greenback jumped to a one-month high against the yen, but retreated against the Aussie dollar and loonie.
  — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
• The greenback strengthened, with the kiwi, loonie and Aussie dollar lagging the most of G-10 peers.
  — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 7 Nov. 2017
• Nothing blunts the effects of ideology like a few loonies and toonies in the pocket.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• One side effect of that has been a surge in the Canadian dollar, known as the loonie, that has raised concern at the central bank.
  — Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The best thing about the rally, for me, was that for the first time in quite a while, my feeling of being the only sane person in a ward full of loonies abated.
  — Brigid Ashwood, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2010
• The Aussie and loonie also retreated against the greenback, while the pound rose on hawkish comments from the BOE’s chief economist.
  — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 21 June 2017
• How much has the Trump family made, and where, and who has paid them, right down to the last ruble, renminbi, manat, shekel, peso, and loonie?
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• One reason was the Canadian loonie being some 20 cents lower than the U.S. dollar this time.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2018
• Yes, there were some loonies (those caricatures in Nunsense and Sister Act didn’t spring from an abyss).
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• For now, sentiment on the loonie remains gloomy among fast-money investors.
  — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Outside Barnes & Noble there were the usual right-wing loonies that have attached themselves like barnacles to Clinton for the past three decades.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
• Minutes after Reuters reported that development Wednesday, U.S. stocks slid as the dollar rose against the peso and loonie.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Jan. 2018
• This oil-rich region would subsequently become a driving economic force for the country, until low global oil prices caused the the loonie (the Canadian dollar) to crash.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• Adding an international team would come with its own, unique set of challenges, ranging from how the exchange rate impacts business (the NHL hit a rough patch in 2015 when the loonie’s value fell) to the political fallout.
  — Chris Burke, SI.com, 26 June 2017
• The loonie is the worst-performing major currency against the U.S. dollar this year while Canadian bonds are outperforming on expectations of slower growth.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 Mar. 2018

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