How to Use loony in a Sentence

loony

adjective

• Every family includes someone who's a little loony.
• And even after a loony back-and-forth against the Utes, in Salt Lake City.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• The emotional stakes are lessened a bit by the loony tone.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• The saga of the loony mallard is something of a bright spot for this year’s loon families.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
• What happened to Leff highlights how loony this can be.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• This is basically Jaws with a car, and it’s just as loony as that sounds.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Google isn’t the only member of the Frightful Five with a loony internet idea.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
• Both reporters who were approached under this loony scheme held their ground.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
• 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
• None of those loony efforts, however, lasted more than a week.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• Still, their portrayals were threaded with loony humor and irony.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Surgeons were pillars of society, herbalists the loony fringe.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• 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
• Are White, a film that abounds in lovely oddities and gently loony surprises.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And who will vote based on other loony conspiracy theories pushed by QAnon and other fringe groups?
  — Se Cupp, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Michael Keaton’s loony demon dominates what may still be director Tim Burton’s best movie.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024