loons

plural of loon
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of loons In addition to loons and lakes, Minnesota is also home to a one-of-a-kind competition that for this week, has pitted Classic SPAM against a personal aircraft. Mars King, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025 Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 There's waterfalls coming down the mountains, bears running around and ducks and loons flying around and swimming. Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2024 Many loons have dove down and reemerged since our last time fishing together. Emily Brisse, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loons
Noun
  • There were these lunatics in the car.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Haunted Trail takes visitors outdoors through a path with dense fog and several haunting installations with zombies, a ghoul bus, a graveyard filled with ghosts, chainsaw maniacs and more.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • None of this is meant to suggest that a trade is imminent, but if offered the chance to trade these three players for Peralta, the Yankees would be fools not to take it.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Sabonis and Zach LaVine are fringe All-Stars most seasons, Keegan Murray is a solid wing starter who shoots and defends, DeRozan can still get midrange buckets and shot-fake fools into heaps of fouls, and Malik Monk is electric in a sixth-man role.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And there's the basic annoyance of live bugs in the home.
    Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Hot water is a great way to clean sheets that are heavily soiled, to get rid of uninvited guests like bed bugs or lice, or to kill dust mites.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Loons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loons. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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