How to Use lunatic in a Sentence
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There were these lunatics in the car.
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Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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So here’s this lunatic with a crew cut.
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Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
27 Aug. 2025
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Mark Hamill has been a lunatic for years now.
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Zach Dean Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Duterte painted him as a lunatic.
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Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Parents know these woke lunatics are bullies.
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Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The lunatics are running the asylum.
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Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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But as Plemons so deftly plays him, Teddy doesn’t seem like a lunatic.
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Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Shame on the leadership of Minnesota — and the lunatics in the street.
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Wcco Staff,
CBS News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.
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Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even then, though, the popular take — the story of the lunatics taking over asylum — didn’t sit right with me.
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Paul Fischer,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
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So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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The lunatics who attacked the seat of government to try to change the outcome of a free and fair election are not patriots.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Beating these lunatics was incredible, right?
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Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Will Arnett and other lunatics round out the cast.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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People have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe.
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NBC news,
7 June 2026
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However, don't be surprised that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum and administration at UAF.
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Arkansas Online,
20 Jan. 2026
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The danger is in doing nothing as theocratic lunatics continue to weaponize with atomic bombs and modern missile delivery systems.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio wasn’t far behind, saying the war is being waged against religious lunatics.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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That Tomás, who has already survived the Great Hunger as well as a cruel workhouse, isn’t already a lunatic is perhaps less fantastical than the plot itself at times.
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Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
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Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
12 Sep. 2025
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As a Spurs fan, I was particularly invested in Campbell in an England shirt and recall charging around the living room like a lunatic before the reality that it had been chalked off hit home.
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The Athletic Uk Staff,
New York Times,
18 June 2026
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The President and his advisers have called those opposing them in Minnesota radical lunatics, domestic terrorists, and outright insurrectionists.
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Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
15 Jan. 2026
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Now, after Miami’s 34-10 win Sunday at the New York Jets, you are officially allowed to wonder aloud about wild-card playoff chances and be seen only as way optimistic rather than as a raving lunatic.
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Miami Herald,
7 Dec. 2025
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Director Kash Patel and his FBI would be lunatics to invite the Minnesota law enforcement officials who watched their own police station be burned to the ground in the Floyd riots anywhere near the current investigation.
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David Marcus,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Friends with a sudden devotion to nature begin making plans to convene in parks; TurboTax becomes your closest email companion; your risk of injury at the hands of a lunatic on a City Bike, haunted by the memory of a New Year’s resolution to exercise, may increase.
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Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2026
- He hatched a lunatic plot to overthrow the government.
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Britina Cheng,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Aug. 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
3 Aug. 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Britina Cheng,
Vulture,
2 Aug. 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Britina Cheng,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Britina Cheng,
Vulture,
31 July 2025
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Who is the lunatic who can get her intel from the inside?
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Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Though who could be jealous of a boy with no brothers and a lunatic dad?
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Tiphanie Yanique,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2019
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This forces you to close your mouth just enough to eradicate the lunatic look.
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Ellen Warren,
chicagotribune.com,
14 Dec. 2017
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Which, according to some lunatic math, saves you two pounds a year.
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Samantha Leal,
Marie Claire,
1 Oct. 2015
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We’re told the president called you a lunatic?
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NBC news,
28 June 2026
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And your lunatic City Council has no clue as to why crime is rising through the roof?
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Star Tribune,
26 June 2021
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Those who know better but act badly deserve the scorn of the people — maybe more than the lunatic-in-chief.
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Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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He is described lovingly by colleagues as a brilliant wild man whose ideas are at the lunatic fringe.
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David Bank,
WIRED,
1 Dec. 1995
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From the outside, North Korea can seem like a lunatic nation.
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Jean H. Lee,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2016
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The game, above a certain level of skill, is played at a lunatic extremity of effort.
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Andy Borowitz,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2016
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Such a light as this should shine only on murders and public crime, or along the corridors of lunatic asylums.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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Such a light as this should shine only on murders and public crime, or along the corridors of lunatic asylums.
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Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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As a result, the party increasingly fell under the sway of the lunatic left.
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Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
10 June 2026
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The entire thing needs to play out in high definition, week after lunatic week, loud and in living color.
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SI.com,
19 Feb. 2018
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The physical comedy requires the cast members to boomerang around the set with lunatic abandon.
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Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
12 July 2019
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Few people would stand for a system in which users can be punished for the lunatic interpretations of their followers.
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Gilad Edelman,
Wired,
8 Jan. 2021
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There's an audience out there for every lunatic assertion the president* made.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
15 Aug. 2017
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Three helicopters hovered, their rotors rattling like a lunatic washing machine.
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Dave Eggers,
The New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2020
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That’s because there will be more such attempts, whether inspired by the Islamic State or a lunatic’s private grievances.
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Fredrick Kunkle,
Washington Post,
3 Nov. 2017
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Outside the lunatic fringe, the right today is, in many respects, the revolutionary left of the eighteenth century.
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Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
30 Nov. 2015
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On one end are the extremists, who want to enact lunatic measures like repealing the 19th Amendment.
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Ivana Greco,
Washington Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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Dracula’s henchman Renfield, played by Nicholas Hoult, who is an inmate at the lunatic asylum.
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Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2021
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This is not some sort of lunatic conspiracy theory viewpoint of the American electorate.
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Nr Staff,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2020
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