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How to use bonkers in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Bonkers means mad; crazy. Example: “We all knew he'd gone bonkers after he started speaking only gibberish.”

Examples of bonkers by meaning

adjectiveMad; crazy.

  • And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers."2021 December 29, Paul Clifton, “"Crisis" on the West of England line”, in RAIL, number 947, page 35

More sentences with bonkers

  • We all knew he'd gone bonkers after he started speaking only gibberish.From the entry go bonkers
  • Some cats go bonkers over catnip; others ignore it.From the entry catnip
  • Everyone should just go bonkers at my next birthday party.From the entry go bonkers
  • Bonkers, pedovore, satanic communists ruling the world are not desirable for any country.2024, Ahmed Al-Rawi, Carmen Celestini, Nicole K. Stewart, Joseph M. Nicolaï, Nathan Worku, The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories. From the entry pedovore
  • Our hair is always really short and it drives me bonkers when it isn't.2020 June 12, Nathan Blay, quotee, “COVID-19: London cuts loose as more restrictions eased”, in The London Free Press, archived from the…. From the entry covid cut
  • But, as we discovered this week, Starmernomics is every bit as bonkers as Corbynomics ever was.2020 February 15, Matthew Lynn, “Starmer’s hard-Left pledges would push UK’s economy over the edge”, in The Telegraph, archived from the…. From the entry Starmernomics
  • Financially, behaviourally and organisationally bonkers, this idea is gaining traction on the bien pensant left.2017 March 13, Will Hutton, “Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry bien pensant
  • Don't plan to use it in a room without other noise or it'll drive you bonkers.2005 February 18, Ren@tionalisebritishtele.com, “dehumidifiers”, in alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry fridgey
  • The performances have to be genuinely moving and the setting vividly evoked; bonkers twists must be kept to a minimum.2021 April 16, Judy Berman, “Kate Winslet's Mare of Easttown Is the Rare Crime Drama That Cares About Its Characters”, in Time, archived…. From the entry minimum
  • I find it bonkers, by the way!2009 April 30, Rick Astley, “moot”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2022. From the entry rickroll
  • At the time I thought he was insane, bonkers, and dismissed it with a Darth Vaderesque wave of the hand.2009, Brad Burton, Get Off Your Arse, 4Publishing, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry Darth Vaderesque
  • On the other hand, I love watching reaction content if its xQc streaming because his mind is bonkers and hes hilarious to watch.2022 January 17, tony223111, r/DemonSlayerAnime, Reddit, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2024. From the entry prewatch
  • It's a mouth-puckeringly tart movie that's tonally in a world of its own – darkly disturbing, absurd, brutal and silly, with a batsqueak of bonkers.2019 November 21, Cath Clarke, “Judy & Punch review – brutal and brilliantly bizarre #MeToo fairytale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry mouth-puckeringly
  • Her voice was friendly enough, but Pincher wasn’t so exhausted or bonkers that he couldn’t see the cold repulsion of her eye.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 38. From the entry repulsion
  • Somewhere near the end of “Resurrection,” a sleek, hurtling, ridiculously entertaining horror movie from Andrew Semans, there’s a scene of such gruesomely bonkers intent that I actually gasped.2022 July 28, Jeannette Catsoulis, “‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Sep…. From the entry gruesomely
  • We must imagine this as a set of instructions: go forth and buy tickets, so we can keep making our bonkers explosion-offs for you in the future.2020 August 29, Rebecca Nicholson, “Tom Cruise: another groundbreaking role for cinema's cheerleader”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry -off

Meaning of bonkers

  1. adjective Mad; crazy.

Full definition of bonkers

Questions about bonkers in a sentence

How do you use bonkers in a sentence?
Bonkers is used as an adjective. For example: “We all knew he'd gone bonkers after he started speaking only gibberish.”
What is a short sentence with bonkers?
“I find it bonkers, by the way!”
What does bonkers mean?
Bonkers means mad; crazy.

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