How to Use lunatic in a Sentence

lunatic

adjective

• He hatched a lunatic plot to overthrow the government.
• This forces you to close your mouth just enough to eradicate the lunatic look.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Though who could be jealous of a boy with no brothers and a lunatic dad?
  — Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• And your lunatic City Council has no clue as to why crime is rising through the roof?
  — Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Which, according to some lunatic math, saves you two pounds a year.
  — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2015
• From the outside, North Korea can seem like a lunatic nation.
  — Jean H. Lee, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2016
• He is described lovingly by colleagues as a brilliant wild man whose ideas are at the lunatic fringe.
  — David Bank, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1995
• The game, above a certain level of skill, is played at a lunatic extremity of effort.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2016
• Happy to Represent the Other Side: The writer could be a lunatic single male.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
• But his aim is simple: to lay out, in detail, the often lunatic 40-year campaign to destroy Hillary Clinton.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• The physical comedy requires the cast members to boomerang around the set with lunatic abandon.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• In the literary thriller, R.M. Renfield was an inmate at a lunatic asylum.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Nov. 2021
• The entire thing needs to play out in high definition, week after lunatic week, loud and in living color.
  — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• And don’t forget the very special episode about a business trip to the home of a lunatic murderous cowboy billionaire (Kyra Sedgwick!
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• That’s because there will be more such attempts, whether inspired by the Islamic State or a lunatic’s private grievances.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
• Ellis died in 2008 of cirrhosis of the liver, but his legacy lives on, regardless of whether or not the acid no-hitter was a flight of fancy or a real, lunatic day.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 12 June 2017
• Dracula’s henchman Renfield, played by Nicholas Hoult, who is an inmate at the lunatic asylum.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• Outside the lunatic fringe, the right today is, in many respects, the revolutionary left of the eighteenth century.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2015
• Robin Williams had the same thing going for him: a lunatic brilliance that none of his movies ever truly utilized effectively.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 30 July 2018
• Few people would stand for a system in which users can be punished for the lunatic interpretations of their followers.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 8 Jan. 2021
• Someone who might take our hand, as if taking the hand of an errant toddler, and gently guide us away from the lunatic precipice that the ‘logic’ of profit unguided by the compass of feeling has brought us to.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Amanda Peet says her house often resembles a lunatic asylum.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• It’s another to connect that to a belief in something that appears obviously lunatic like QAnon.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• There's an audience out there for every lunatic assertion the president* made.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Aug. 2017
• Of course, he was most bemused about the attempt to find evidence of bamboo fibers on the ballots, part of a lunatic right-wing conspiracy theory involving ballots sent from Asia.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2021
• This is not some sort of lunatic conspiracy theory viewpoint of the American electorate.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
• Only a minute remained of the second leg of this Champions League semifinal, sixty more seconds after three frantic, chaotic, lunatic hours of soccer over two games.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Back then, Wenner’s insistence on the music’s significance and import—its relevance to the Zeitgeist, its abundance—was a lunatic gesture.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2017
• Bruno fulfills his end of the deal, but Guy, the other man, never took the pact seriously and refuses to cooperate, sending Bruno into a downward spiral of lunatic frenzy.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• In the gloaming, these white jumpsuits, moving irregularly amid the deep green of the manicured grounds, brought to mind an avant-garde film about a lunatic asylum: the inmates, in their hospital gowns, out for a constitutional.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024