How to Use kook in a Sentence

kook

noun
  • Not that kooks would think kooky things.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This chill beach town is full of sun, sand, and waves for pros, kooks (beginners), and groms (kids) alike.
    — Yousra Attia, ELLE, 9 June 2023
  • Trump has in the past defended racists and kooks who were part of his broader political tribe.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 May 2018
  • Not the crazy aunt/spell-casting kook who’s going to be film fans’ top Halloween costume this year.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The threat of being written off as a kook can loom large for researchers, especially young ones.
    — Diane Peters, Quartz, 15 July 2019
  • Harold Camping, the guy making these claims is, to be charitable, a kook.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011
  • No flying monkey drive-by attacks or bug-eyed conspiracy kooks.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Halaena can tell that something’s up with mummy, but that kook’s never been too concerned with matters of court.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook, and possibly even a murderer.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2020
  • When the Dredgers were founded in 1999, they were widely regarded as kooks.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Others were kooks, and some were dangerous scoundrels—or some combination thereof.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The brand’s ready-to-wear this season felt like a conjoining of ideas in its other shows over the past few seasons, creating a kind of wearable kook.
    — Julian Randall, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Almedilla’s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • For the pogues and kooks who've already torn through the first half of the new season of Outer Banks, season 4 part 2 is on its way.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Now Rodgers is considered by many to be a kook, someone who let himself get hoodwinked by junk science and conspiracies.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Even Kathy Hilton is like a ghost of her former self, with Jen Tilly taking the crown of doddering kook away from her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Before, a typical kook at Linda Mar would cut you off, fall, and apologize while laughing at himself.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The action involves three muses — a chain-smoking temptress, an overheated diva and a fanciful kook — who each capture the attention of our hero.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The most tense sequence in El Camino depends on the gabby old kook from down the hall ever-so-slowly watering plants with a plastic spray bottle.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Although there’s truly nothing as important as spending time in the water, there are some things that will make the process of going from a complete kook to a proficient beginner less of a chore.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
  • What so many of these talking heads have in common—legitimate experts, well-meaning journalists, and kooks alike—is how costly their recommendations are.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • O’Hara worked consistently across her 50-year career in both film and television, best known for playing beloved kooks and amiable wackos, though her range was boundless.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Besides partisans and kooks, who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions?
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2019
  • Notwithstanding predictions that the eclipse would be a magnet for kooks and doomsayers, normalcy reigned Sunday in downtown Hopkinsville.
    — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2017
  • The kooks of that age believed that Iran-Contra was only just an inkling of the secret government behind the scenes that was preparing to herd Americans into prison camps.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Performances range from silly to sillier, with Johnson’s Joseph acting like such a kook that Jolliffe is consistently upstaged.
    — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018

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