How to Use batty in a Sentence

batty

adjective
  • One of the things that drives me truly batty is my duvet.
    — Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Your little one will go batty for these sweet, homemade bat wings.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, channel vibes that are more wickedly stylish than batty.
    — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 15 Sep. 2025
  • These batty pumpkins come together with a bit of black poster board and a printable pattern.
    — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Outdoor pumpkin decor never looked so batty!
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The walks the staff as a whole allowed last year drove Chris Woodward nearly batty.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
  • Are there more batty relatives lurking out there in the Amazon?
    — National Geographic, 2 May 2016
  • Because people out there – parents, pundits, politicians – have gone batty.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Not long ago, talking on the phone with Bluetooth headsets made people look batty, but now everyone does it.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 1 May 2024
  • Your kids will go batty for this fun and colorful pillow project, which doubles as cool bedroom Halloween decor.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Like any coach, Kerr is driven batty by rookies, but Moody might not be a typical rookie.
    — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
  • These colorful creatures are filled with goodies that will make kids go absolutely batty.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That’s not to say a phone, laptop or a smartwatch will suddenly go batty after two years; the process is usually much more subtle than that.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That’s because the bat has a lifetime of batty experiences that shape its worldview, not to mention a brain and a body utterly unlike our own.
    — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • Few things drive conservative voters battier than phony politicians, those who say one thing and do another to avoid hard choices.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • Because the virus has a few genes that aren’t quite batty, researchers think the virus also spent time in an intermediate host before jumping to humans.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
  • But that's to the film's benefit; with so many pieces in play, Miike is freed up to orchestrate one batty setpiece after another.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The first two films revealed that every nerve in Dracula’s batty body was stretched to the limit by being a single father and grandfather.
    — Rick Bentley, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • There’s no shortage of creatively batty jokes, all inspired by popularly festive motifs like witches, skeletons, and ghosts, oh my!
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 18 July 2019
  • The most enjoyable part of the first two films was how every nerve in Dracula's batty body was stretched to the limit by being a single father and grandfather.
    — Rick Bentley, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • What an absolutely batty journey the Milwaukee Bucks are about to embark on in the immediate hours ahead.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The draft is now about potential, not immediate impact, which contributes to batty decision-making.
    — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • This episode’s case-of-the-week is both entertainingly batty and thematically relevant.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Batty caves are not now notably batty but were undeniably home to batty occupants around 1964.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Of course, keeping a player like Angelina around for the long haul could be beneficial for players who would like to sit in front of a jury next to someone who drives everybody else batty.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And most of today’s Esperanto adherents are neither naïve nor even particularly batty.
    — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • This healthy dollop of Christmas camp, which is a little batty by even Netflix holiday movie standards, is eager to give Lohan something to do.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2022
  • For much of the time, their status is something like that of beloved, deaf, and slightly batty old folk who cannot expect to be at the center of the family, but who are made to feel included on important occasions.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • An average person might go mildly batty listening to piped-in Christmas tunes for 10 hours a day, five days a week, for two months, but among the theme park staff are genuine believers.
    — Melena Ryzik Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Hot on the heels of 2022’s brilliantly batty tech-slasher and this year’s Afraid is Subservience, which is now streaming on Netflix.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024

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