How to Use loony in a Sentence
loony
adjective- Every family includes someone who's a little loony.
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And even after a loony back-and-forth against the Utes, in Salt Lake City.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
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The emotional stakes are lessened a bit by the loony tone.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
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The saga of the loony mallard is something of a bright spot for this year’s loon families.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
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What happened to Leff highlights how loony this can be.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
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This is basically Jaws with a car, and it’s just as loony as that sounds.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
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When a corporate mega-park opens nearby, D.C. and his loony crew of misfits must pull out all the stops to try and save the day.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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After a while the City managed to look loony and sensible at the same time, like a VW Beetle.
—Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
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The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
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Google isn’t the only member of the Frightful Five with a loony internet idea.
—Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
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Both reporters who were approached under this loony scheme held their ground.
—Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
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The league lifted its on-field partying ban, so the players reinvented loony new ways to boast.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
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None of those loony efforts, however, lasted more than a week.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 June 2021
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And then there’s the lovely, loony sight of Russell Crowe, gamely chasséing in a golden breastplate and white tutu as the Greek god Zeus.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
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This loony British farce details the struggle for power that erupted at the Kremlin after Joseph Stalin died of a stroke in 1953.
—Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
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Still, their portrayals were threaded with loony humor and irony.
—New York Times, 20 July 2022
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Surgeons were pillars of society, herbalists the loony fringe.
—The Economist, 11 July 2019
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The people who cover this loony health care process should at the very least attempt to distill the consequences of the not-so-skinny bill into their descriptions of it.
—Brian Beutler, New Republic, 26 July 2017
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Are White, a film that abounds in lovely oddities and gently loony surprises.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
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At 51, Hartig is more the fun, loony uncle than the mischievous scalawag—a somewhat shy eccentric with angst disguised as devil-may-care.
—Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
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And a seriously long staircase with a loony payoff leading to the Sacré Coeur Basilica at dawn.
—Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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This affords the great Cate Blanchett any number of hyper-ventilating, evasion-centric loony scenes, but also leaves the heart of the matter 'til the very end.
—Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
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On Monday, during the team’s victory parade down Market Street, Klay added to his loony legacy.
—Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2022
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There is a pleasant, loony tension in the earliest episodes of Run, a kind of fizzing combination of excitement and unease.
—Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
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Bette Davis, garish and loony, is a former child star who passes the time torturing her crippled sister Joan Crawford.
—Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 2 Mar. 2018
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And who will vote based on other loony conspiracy theories pushed by QAnon and other fringe groups?
—Se Cupp, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
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Like a loony kind of bazaar, every inch of the space was cluttered with disparate items — her television, her expensive kitchen-knife set, a small fridge — with a tiny patch on the floor for Abby, her poodle.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
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You were elected to represent all of Colorado, not just the loony, lefty, nonsensical opinions of the progressives.
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
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Michael Keaton’s loony demon dominates what may still be director Tim Burton’s best movie.
—Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 13 Oct. 2019
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That was them — and one farting-corpse feature film later, Daniels have made a name for themselves as go-to absurdists with a love of loony FX, dark comedy and some odd, left-turn swerves into pathos.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022
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