How to Use loony in a Sentence

loony

adjective
  • Every family includes someone who's a little loony.
  • Both reporters who were approached under this loony scheme held their ground.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Dark loony New York comedy, but still.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The saga of the loony mallard is something of a bright spot for this year’s loon families.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
  • None of those loony efforts, however, lasted more than a week.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 June 2021
  • Still, their portrayals were threaded with loony humor and irony.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • And even after a loony back-and-forth against the Utes, in Salt Lake City.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The league lifted its on-field partying ban, so the players reinvented loony new ways to boast.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The first commercial space shuttle sends loony Ted and his former girlfriend on a trip to the moon.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Surgeons were pillars of society, herbalists the loony fringe.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Google isn’t the only member of the Frightful Five with a loony internet idea.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Are White, a film that abounds in lovely oddities and gently loony surprises.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
  • And who will vote based on other loony conspiracy theories pushed by QAnon and other fringe groups?
    — Se Cupp, CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
  • After a while the City managed to look loony and sensible at the same time, like a VW Beetle.
    — Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
  • Michael Keaton’s loony demon dominates what may still be director Tim Burton’s best movie.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The people who cover this loony health care process should at the very least attempt to distill the consequences of the not-so-skinny bill into their descriptions of it.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 26 July 2017
  • There is a pleasant, loony tension in the earliest episodes of Run, a kind of fizzing combination of excitement and unease.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
  • And a seriously long staircase with a loony payoff leading to the Sacré Coeur Basilica at dawn.
    — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • You were elected to represent all of Colorado, not just the loony, lefty, nonsensical opinions of the progressives.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
  • At 51, Hartig is more the fun, loony uncle than the mischievous scalawag—a somewhat shy eccentric with angst disguised as devil-may-care.
    — Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Bette Davis, garish and loony, is a former child star who passes the time torturing her crippled sister Joan Crawford.
    — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 2 Mar. 2018
  • On Monday, during the team’s victory parade down Market Street, Klay added to his loony legacy.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2022
  • This is a Canadian story, told by Canadian filmmakers, who treat the whole loony affair as a matter of national pride.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Batman downplayed the darker aspects of the character, focusing for the most part on light, loony adventure scenarios with Robin.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
  • And then there’s the lovely, loony sight of Russell Crowe, gamely chasséing in a golden breastplate and white tutu as the Greek god Zeus.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • This affords the great Cate Blanchett any number of hyper-ventilating, evasion-centric loony scenes, but also leaves the heart of the matter 'til the very end.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Like a loony kind of bazaar, every inch of the space was cluttered with disparate items — her television, her expensive kitchen-knife set, a small fridge — with a tiny patch on the floor for Abby, her poodle.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
  • This loony British farce details the struggle for power that erupted at the Kremlin after Joseph Stalin died of a stroke in 1953.
    — Chicago Reader, 7 Mar. 2018
  • That was them — and one farting-corpse feature film later, Daniels have made a name for themselves as go-to absurdists with a love of loony FX, dark comedy and some odd, left-turn swerves into pathos.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2022

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