How to Use gooner in a Sentence

gooner

noun
  • The gooners racked their brains.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But to many gooners, that’s the appeal.
    — Jennifer Pollitt, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Protect gooner guy at all costs!
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the gooners bragged about them.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Healthy gooning, as any gooner can tell you, is an oxymoron.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The gooner may well be your friend, family member, or neighbor.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But what your average gooner is up to is basically a kind of sad, confusing role-play.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But the gooners’ rise does, in retrospect, possess a certain inevitability.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That at a certain point, the gooner will open his eyes, find himself in a room filled with lube but void of love, and decide that the boredom of staying in that room outweighs the fear of whatever lies beyond it.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Kolitz’s ethnography, crucially, does not portray gooners as some freakishly niche cohort operating at the outer edges of society.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Like those lunatic trolls who emerge now and then to threaten the children of right-wing media targets, the gooners are just having fun, playing around, saying the things one says to get ahead in their particular community.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As for the on-cam streaming stuff, Gooncultist traces it to something called Rabbit, a platform designed to allow users to watch Netflix together, which proto-gooners found their own novel uses for.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This gooner was also nineteen and was fairly new to the scene—he’d joined the community just a few months earlier—but had taken to it passionately, so passionately that JustDamage was concerned for his welfare.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One hundred and twenty gooners had RSVP’d to that evening’s event, which, from WristbandGuy’s experience, meant that about fifteen would ultimately show.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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