How to Use loopy in a Sentence

loopy

adjective
  • The movie has a certain loopy charm.
  • As the night goes on and the caffeine wears off, people get loopy and start to see things.
    Andrew Nicla, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2019
  • Throughout the night, Bryan said, things got loopy as tired teams chipped away and smoothed the sculptures.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Below the text, which is loopy but precise, there is the stamp of a ship called the Seychelles Prelude.
    Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The tent was so dark and everyone was looking at the DJ and just vibing to this loopy track.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Perhaps those loopy eyes got fixed and once again can inspire a child’s love.
    Diana Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2017
  • Blachowicz knocks Rockhold loopy with a left hand and then knocks him out on the ground.
    Todd Martin, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • On Running Cloudstratus See those loopy nubs on the soles of these shoes?
    Gear Team, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The debris is still with us, from that and from years of fallow drafts and loopy trades and a crushing plague of injuries.
    Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 2 June 2017
  • That’s what a downright loopy jet stream pattern is bringing to large parts of the United States.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Her manner was just weird and loopy with lots of mistimed laughter.
    Melanie Eversley, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Rep vet Stephen Pugh shows a delightful comic side as the loopy leader of the lemurs (Say that three times fast).
    Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The blonde and black pieces of hair blend together beautifully in the loopy style.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 July 2021
  • The small round robot (about the size of a hockey puck) moves on a loopy path according to its own logic.
    NBC News, 19 June 2017
  • The actress and wifey to Joe Jonas showed up with super-long extensions styled in loopy, dreamy curls.
    Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 2 May 2019
  • Cindy Wilson heard all those things when the B52s took their beehive hairdos, loopy tunes and campy show onto the stage.
    John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Somebody should tell the producers that nobody is fooled by those loopy little wires with the quote marks on the end of them.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Cancer: If your thoughts go a little loopy, try thinking out loud.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 15 May 2017
  • As every loopy new theory has been debunked, a new one has emerged to take its place.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Dec. 2017
  • New York was suddenly full of loopy fantasies like Area’s.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In the first game of the third set, Djokovic again netted a routine backhand, off a loopy Alcaraz inside-out forehand.
    Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • These weren’t even the loopiest speeches of the afternoon.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Jennifer Coolidge, who played a loopy resort guest in the series, picked up the award for best supporting actress.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Martinez has long featured a wipeout slider, but that’s a loopier pitch that sits in the mid-80s.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • But Norco, for all its narrative propulsion, finds loopy joy in the journey, too.
    Clayton Purdom, Chron, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Cher is a great storyteller, spinning out stories that are long and loopy yet somehow tie together in the end.
    Randy Cordova, azcentral, 24 Nov. 2019
  • In the film, the Edies emerge as larger-than-life figures: loopy, flamboyant, and locked in a tortured co-dependency.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Wind blows in single, loopy strokes, and evocative facial expressions are conjured with but a few lines.
    Kay Sohini, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • By Lowery’s loopy metaphysics, this sends the ghost back to the time of European settlement of the American frontier.
    Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 5 July 2017
  • Martsch’s brain-frying guitar jams often sound like an unhinged Neil Young filtered through the loopy high plains psychedelia of Meat Puppets.
    Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 28 June 2018

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