How to Use psycho in a Sentence

psycho

noun
  • Ward locks her in her room and goes off to deal with his psycho son.
    — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • These are full psycho killers who should be kept in solitary.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Wasn't going to jail over that psycho.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • This country is growing more psycho by the day.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This country is growing more psycho by the day.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Extremely psycho, and again, the show has not backed any of this up!
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
  • So that guy was always a little psycho with a taste for violence.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Magically, Reek grew a set of balls and pushed that psycho to her death.
    — Stelios Phili, Marie Claire, 15 June 2015
  • As is common with such yarns, things get tangled up when the psycho enters the picture.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Alice Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new.
    — Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Some psychos may get them anyway, and those who don’t could still just use a Glock and a Sig.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • During our 13-mile lap, we were passed only once, by a psycho on a bullet bike.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2018
  • The people in my community called me crazy, psycho, shell-shocked.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2019
  • All those pandemic pups had started going psycho at the same time and all the trainers were busy.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Sometimes, if the neighbor is loud enough for long enough, a coward can transform into a psycho.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Like some psycho on YouTube who stalks families and narrates their lives.
    — Mark Shrayber, Cosmopolitan, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The first paragraph alone is a master class in psycho-villain monologuing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Like psycho-history itself, all of these changes make sense in theory.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Of course the masked psycho character, Michael Myers, is back.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • To use today’s psycho-parlance, Peter didn’t like himself very much.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • His turn as a millionaire psycho in Nightmare Alley might prove a better bet.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • In Christie’s novel, a group of strangers is lured to an isolated house on an island, where, in short order, a psycho prunes the guest list.
    — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2020
  • God is a deranged psycho who not only tolerates his world’s atrocities but conceives of them in strange and inhuman terms.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In his hitman psycho-comedy's third season, Bill Hader looks wrecked.
    — Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In a fortunate turn of events for our psycho killer, Robinson has grown more and more curious about Jane — things just don’t add up with her.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The final developments honor the lurid psycho-thriller tradition, though arguably could have gone a step or two further.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The last two layers of healing—psycho-emotional and spiritual—are focused on our mental health.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • It's been 33 years since Child's Play introduced the killer doll Chucky and the pint-sized psycho is still going strong.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Stone is remarkable; emotionally wriggling like a bug pinned to a wall, trying different tactics with this psycho.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The message is that men will literally make acoustic concept albums about psycho killers instead of going to therapy.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025

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