How to Use loonie in a Sentence

loonie

noun
  • While the release of the $1 coin in Canada, dubbed the loonie, stymied that plan, the name stuck.
    — Fortune, 8 Dec. 2017
  • For now, sentiment on the loonie remains gloomy among fast-money investors.
    — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Nothing blunts the effects of ideology like a few loonies and toonies in the pocket.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • The greenback jumped to a one-month high against the yen, but retreated against the Aussie dollar and loonie.
    — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
  • But kudos to Atkins for working around the loonies and standing up to the mighty governor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • One side effect of that has been a surge in the Canadian dollar, known as the loonie, that has raised concern at the central bank.
    — Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The best thing about the rally, for me, was that for the first time in quite a while, my feeling of being the only sane person in a ward full of loonies abated.
    — Brigid Ashwood, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2010
  • Yes, there were some loonies (those caricatures in Nunsense and Sister Act didn’t spring from an abyss).
    — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The slide of the Canadian dollar, known as the loonie — for the bird on the one-dollar coin — will also play a prominent role as winter approaches.
    — Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Tommy and Angela’s rapid, NC-17 make-up after the dinner fight proves that those two loonies are meant for each other.
    — William Earl, Variety, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Outside Barnes & Noble there were the usual right-wing loonies that have attached themselves like barnacles to Clinton for the past three decades.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The Aussie and loonie also retreated against the greenback, while the pound rose on hawkish comments from the BOE’s chief economist.
    — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 21 June 2017
  • This oil-rich region would subsequently become a driving economic force for the country, until low global oil prices caused the the loonie (the Canadian dollar) to crash.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Ultimately, balancing a predictive approach with reactive decision-making is a strong way to optimize transactions and account for a weaker loonie.
    — Rahim Madhavji, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • His suggestion that journalists have an ax to grind and are obsessed with identity politics, money in politics and the desirability of Scandinavian-style socialism sounds a lot like the complaints of conservatives who are deemed right-wing loonies.
    — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Adding an international team would come with its own, unique set of challenges, ranging from how the exchange rate impacts business (the NHL hit a rough patch in 2015 when the loonie’s value fell) to the political fallout.
    — Chris Burke, SI.com, 26 June 2017

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