How to Use lunacy in a Sentence

lunacy

noun
  • Quitting her job was lunacy.
  • His idea was considered total lunacy.
  • Yet the fun-sized island has much more to it than two-wheeled lunacy.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Summer is a time for love, lunacy, ass's ears, and laughs.
    Philly.com, 28 May 2017
  • Paying more than $80 million for a coach to go away would be the height of lunacy in a sport that has long since lost its way.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Someone had to begin to say no to the lunacy that has prevailed.
    Peter Georgescu For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The best time to catch all the lunacy is after local sunset on March 20 and 21, just as the moon rises.
    Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2019
  • A fey sort of person who works just as hard at her lunacies as the rest of us do trying to keep on the mundane side.
    Negar Azimi, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Even Hitler could not have foreseen the lunacy of the campaign season.
    Sarah Rense, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
  • The lunacy of being able to buy a military-grade weapon at 18 years old is the problem.
    Marcos Breton, sacbee, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute says this is lunacy.
    John Stossel, Orange County Register, 19 June 2019
  • In that context, giving up a Cy Young-caliber starter is the height of lunacy.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 31 July 2019
  • With a lead on the scoreboard and the look of lunacy all around, the Prince gazed out at the boiling sea of mass hysteria and opened his teeth wide and feral.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The film’s thesis is that, until three centuries ago, it was deemed an act of lunacy to climb such a mountain.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2018
  • The last month, for all intents and purposes, has been lunacy.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Check out Johnson’s latest eco-lunacy for part of the reason why.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The height of the evening's lunacy came when Jed Lowrie, battling Wilmer Font as if a playoff berth was on the line, capped an 11-pitch at-bat with a three-run homer in the ninth as the game approached the four-hour mark.
    Mike Digiovanna, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The scenes of them staggering about the frigid wasteland on a scale-model plan of the school scraped into the snow have exactly the long-shot lunacy that suggests.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Which means Democrats either have to figure a way to defuse it or—gasp!—Illinois is looking at another four years of this lunacy.
    Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 11 July 2017
  • The left has no equivalent to a Rush Limbaugh in influence and sheer lunacy.
    Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Sep. 2017
  • She stalks Mark, their one mutual acquaintance, to the point of lunacy.
    Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The Cup has driven some men to lunacy, others to bankruptcy.
    Luke O'Brien, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2013
  • Commenters went berserk for and against my recipe, with many lording the reverse sear as the preferred method over my apparent sheer lunacy.
    Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • There are, of course, some true believers who constitute a deep state of lunacy and malice.
    Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • If people buy into her lunacy to the point there are consequences for you, then talk to an attorney.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Then laugh your way through a very funny piece of analysis, compounded of love and lunacy.
    Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The movie was made back when closing down several city blocks in San Francisco didn’t seem like sheer lunacy.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Ditch conventional gear and use a fly rod, just to ramp up a challenging task to next-level lunacy.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • Torres is more or less the straight man, as Alejandro endures Elizabeth’s all-over-the-map lunacy.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the whole cycle was algorithmically amplified on social media, which is where most of us got wind of the lunacy.
    Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024

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