How to Use psycho in a Sentence

psycho

noun

• Ward locks her in her room and goes off to deal with his psycho son.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Of course, Doc is a psycho genius with all of his plays.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
• Extremely psycho, and again, the show has not backed any of this up!
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• Some psychos may get them anyway, and those who don’t could still just use a Glock and a Sig.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
• These are full psycho killers who should be kept in solitary.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2021
• The movie presents him not as a complex figure of evil but as a pure movie archetype: the psycho with a dungeon next door.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 June 2022
• It's been 33 years since Child's Play introduced the killer doll Chucky and the pint-sized psycho is still going strong.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Magically, Reek grew a set of balls and pushed that psycho to her death.
  — Stelios Phili, Marie Claire, 15 June 2015
• Alice Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new.
  — Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2017
• As is common with such yarns, things get tangled up when the psycho enters the picture.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• During our 13-mile lap, we were passed only once, by a psycho on a bullet bike.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2018
• Of course the masked psycho character, Michael Myers, is back.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• All those pandemic pups had started going psycho at the same time and all the trainers were busy.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
• In Christie’s novel, a group of strangers is lured to an isolated house on an island, where, in short order, a psycho prunes the guest list.
  — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2020
• Like some psycho on YouTube who stalks families and narrates their lives.
  — Mark Shrayber, Cosmopolitan, 19 Sep. 2017
• Sometimes, if the neighbor is loud enough for long enough, a coward can transform into a psycho.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• The people in my community called me crazy, psycho, shell-shocked.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2019
• By choosing Mr Hunt MPs have avoided a blood-letting, and distanced the their party from one of the great psycho-dramas of recent years.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2019
• A spectacular death for a psycho Game of Thrones villain?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 31 July 2017
• The first paragraph alone is a master class in psycho-villain monologuing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• The first few seconds of screen time belong to the story’s stone-cold psycho (Rotimi Paul, truly scary as Skeletor).
  — Michael Phillips, kansascity, 3 July 2018
• Those, mixed with psycho-dramas like mother! and tearjerkers like Breathe, make this fall's summer movie slate the most eclectic yet.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2017
• His turn as a millionaire psycho in Nightmare Alley might prove a better bet.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
• The drink list will also reflect that of Jack Torrance’s psycho-speakeasy, with special cocktail options for the pop-up (perhaps even some Red Rum?).
  — Adam Lukach, RedEye Chicago, 23 Feb. 2018
• At least one person ends the episode feeling quite chipper: Byron, who wakes up, freshly chipped, laughing like a psycho.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• To use today’s psycho-parlance, Peter didn’t like himself very much.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• For more than half a century, the 73-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has spent up to six months a year on the road, bringing his quintessential brand of rock psycho-drama to fiery fans.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2022
• Like psycho-history itself, all of these changes make sense in theory.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
• The final developments honor the lurid psycho-thriller tradition, though arguably could have gone a step or two further.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2023
• God is a deranged psycho who not only tolerates his world’s atrocities but conceives of them in strange and inhuman terms.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024