How to Use lunacy in a Sentence

lunacy

noun
  • Quitting her job was lunacy.
  • His idea was considered total lunacy.
  • After all, there’s ample lunacy to be found on the left and the right these days.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Someone had to begin to say no to the lunacy that has prevailed.
    — Peter Georgescu For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The last month, for all intents and purposes, has been lunacy.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Even Hitler could not have foreseen the lunacy of the campaign season.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
  • The film’s thesis is that, until three centuries ago, it was deemed an act of lunacy to climb such a mountain.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2018
  • Check out Johnson’s latest eco-lunacy for part of the reason why.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Because it's invariably attached to the idea of some kind of lunacy.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Because it’s invariably attached to the idea of some kind of lunacy.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Hart would throw one more strike in four more pitches, and his day was finished, as the lunacy was just getting started.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • These losses prove the lunacy of the EV market.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • To suggest that anyone who vaccinates their kids doesn’t love them is a whole new level of lunacy.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Then laugh your way through a very funny piece of analysis, compounded of love and lunacy.
    — Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Paying more than $80 million for a coach to go away would be the height of lunacy in a sport that has long since lost its way.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • There are, of course, some true believers who constitute a deep state of lunacy and malice.
    — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The lunacy of being able to buy a military-grade weapon at 18 years old is the problem.
    — Marcos Breton, sacbee, 14 Mar. 2018
  • In that context, giving up a Cy Young-caliber starter is the height of lunacy.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 July 2019
  • If people buy into her lunacy to the point there are consequences for you, then talk to an attorney.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Ditch conventional gear and use a fly rod, just to ramp up a challenging task to next-level lunacy.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • With all this lunacy, your show can also hit tender moments so well — like when Charles and Doreen make amends.
    — Jim Halterman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Blame it on the current lunacy surrounding any stock that even smells like an Internet play.
    — David Lazarus, WIRED, 16 Nov. 1998
  • Commenters went berserk for and against my recipe, with many lording the reverse sear as the preferred method over my apparent sheer lunacy.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Once upon a time, the idea of a baseball team allowing most of its games to be broadcast on television was lunacy.
    — Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Pure lunacy — and now stressing out students with crashes of a computer system.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • The left has no equivalent to a Rush Limbaugh in influence and sheer lunacy.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The movie was made back when closing down several city blocks in San Francisco didn’t seem like sheer lunacy.
    — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • With a lead on the scoreboard and the look of lunacy all around, the Prince gazed out at the boiling sea of mass hysteria and opened his teeth wide and feral.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The best time to catch all the lunacy is after local sunset on March 20 and 21, just as the moon rises.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The scenes of them staggering about the frigid wasteland on a scale-model plan of the school scraped into the snow have exactly the long-shot lunacy that suggests.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022

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