How to Use kooky in a Sentence

kooky

adjective
  • I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.
  • Not that kooks would think kooky things.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
  • If people thought the first film was a little strange and kooky, this just amps it up.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The kooky shapes that adorn Weird Barbie’s home were built from scratch.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The hard part about trusting that read is that Jason is a kooky mastermind.
    — Outside Online, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There were rain, sunshine and gray clouds, but the Danes didn’t let that dampen their kooky spirits.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 11 Aug. 2025
  • And the toilet moment was only one of many kooky highlights at the Garden.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Anyone surprised by how kooky this song is has not been paying enough attention to Robyn’s whole deal.
    — Molly Mary O’Brien, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But that doesn’t mean their ideas about AI necessarily are kooky.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, there have been countless iterations of the creepy, kooky family.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2023
  • Bernthal has a bigger part this time and his character has been reworked into a comedic sidekick with his own kooky wiring.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In between cocktails by the pool, the singles compete in kooky challenges and go on dates (and even overnights) to strengthen their bonds.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 June 2025
  • To much of the country, that Left Coast pedigree suggests kooky liberal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • The company is betting that chocolate, peanut butter and a group of kooky characters will be enough to carry the day.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The no-guilt, all-pleasure action flick with switching faces and identities lets Cage go all-in with kooky glory.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The no-guilt, all-pleasure action flick with switching faces and identities lets Cage go all-in with kooky glory.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Rachel is showing her authentic self, and that authentic self is creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Rachel is showing her authentic self, and that authentic self is creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There are also instructions for plenty of creepy cocktails and even craft projects for constructing kooky table decor to match.
    — Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Stracke, blonde with a peppy, Southern accent, is on the kooky side but maybe the most no-nonsense of the Housewives.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The worst that some Americans have done was to lie about the Haitian refugees and make up kooky stories about them eating people’s pets.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
  • In the extended family of beer styles, lambics are the kooky European cousins.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Those were words of wisdom from my kooky great-aunt Estelle, who loved the idea of love and would seek me out at family events to bestow her advice.
    — Erica Groten, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Xu and Leung’s film, co-directed by Katherine Dudas, is bright, kooky and so much fun.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Why, argyle, of course — that preppy pattern found on socks and sweaters, and an apt name for the latest kooky spy caper from Matthew Vaughn.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The Emmys are, at long last, finally under the spell of the spooky, ooky, kooky, and creepy Boulet Brothers.
    — EW.com, 17 July 2024
  • The teaser trailer highlights a subway train in Element City and all the kooky characters in its seats.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Egg McMuffin was originally served open-faced, which Kroc thought kooky.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • From the kooky episode that started it all to a recent front-runner, here is every Bob’s Burgers Christmas episode, ranked.
    — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But Christie will always value her time in the kooky universe shaped by the show’s creators and director Tim Burton.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025

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