How to Use wacky in a Sentence

wacky

adjective
  • My wacky aunt takes a swim before the lake freezes every winter.
  • That one was a wacky swing, for sure.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This game could be wacky, or gross, or both.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • So yeah, those wacky Phillies did this again.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • Combat sports is a wacky place to work.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • This led to some wacky writing.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • There’s the laughing loft and the wacky tubes.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Nash-Betts is fun but nowhere near as wacky to watch.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This show is a wild, wacky balm, so zero antacids.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In a wacky twist of fate, both of them get knocked up at the same time!
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • New customers are lured by the buzz over items that sound wacky.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
  • Some of these shapes -- not just the 7th -- are pretty wacky.
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • As if that wasn't cool enough, the cars are painted with some wacky paint jobs.
    — Sasha Richie, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022
  • Just want to put a wacky phrase on a piece of poster board to make people laugh?
    — Sarah Riley, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2017
  • So could a wacky reverse platoon be in play?
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • What’s more fun than wacky mashups like Chinese food in a taco?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
  • What are some of the wackiest things you’ve been asked to do?
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • That’s the way the ball bounces in the wacky realm of politics.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But having said that, there is something of the wacky about him.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • Dozens of wacky faces and doodles stare back as the ride goes in circle.
    — Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
  • That sweet spot — not wacky, not fussy — is key, Almonte said.
    — Mari-Jane Williams, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Where were people getting these wacky ideas?
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • If a team plays in a building long enough, some wacky stuff is bound to happen.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2018
  • To give yourself the best chance at catching bass around bream beds, fish a wacky rig.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 9 May 2024
  • Cards drawn at the end of each very short round change the rules of the game, sometimes in wacky ways.
    — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The lake record is still a monster though, caught just a couple years ago on a wacky rig.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There’s some wild and wacky stuff going on at this World Cup.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The mind is also a place of exploration and wacky high jinks.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
  • Some of the pacing is off, and some lines get lost, but the wacky world-building wins out.
    — Matthew Love, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Burns posted pictures of the wacky items found in carry-ons on the blog.
    — Elizabeth Chuck /, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2018

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