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 | [e-mail], 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
• The American people are fed up with the liberal lunacy that is destroying this country.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024
• As the economist Joseph Stiglitz has noted, this is onerous in normal times, unwise during business-cycle downturns, and outright lunacy in the face of the urgent, large-scale investments needed to fight climate change.
  — Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024