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How to use kook in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Kook means an eccentric, strange or crazy person. Example: “The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks.”

Examples of kook by meaning

nounAn eccentric, strange or crazy person.

  • The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks.2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times

More sentences with kook

  • I looked around and realized that the lineup was all kooks.2010, Peter Heller, Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN. From the entry kooky
  • If you're interested in kookology as it's formally known, you'll be wanting to check out alt.usenet.kooks.2004 February 23, Doktor DynaSoar, “Re: Spot the Loonie!”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet). From the entry kookology
  • Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.2001, realsurf.com message board. From the entry lid
  • Hale-Bopp, the incredible shrinking moon, the medieval kooks and the modern-day wackos—and me.1997 April 3, Scott Sharplin, “Boppin’ Along to the Tune of the Millennium”, in The Gateway, volume 86, number 45, page 24. From the entry awe-ful
  • Not every day some kook points a gun at me.2012, Trish Milburn, White Witch, Bell Bridge Books, page 73, referring to someone with magical powers. From the entry supergirl
  • Let's make it 10pm, I've sort of already designated that time frame (from 10 to 12) as kook parade time.2000 December 17, anonymous author, “Re: SLUTFUCKER FAILS TO SHOW”, in alt.flamenet (Usenet). From the entry SPNAK
  • In a town where everybody plays the angles and wholesomeness is something of an aberration, Julie Andrews, 31, is tolerated as a delightful kook.1966 December 23, “Stars: The Now & Future Queen”, in Time, retrieved 27 Feb 2014. From the entry play the angles
  • Honestly I can't imagine the kooks putting such stuff on their web sites since I'd expect they would want to keep it disseminated solely among fellow kooks.2003 July 8, Fredric L. Rice, “Attn Kookologists: "Revisiting the Jonestown tragedy" by Scientology kooks”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet). From the entry kookologist
  • Just rmgrouping news.admin.net-abuse.usenet would get rid of both the kooks, trolls, and flamers as well as the discussions which are appropriate and pertain to Usenet abuse.1999, Travis Bemann, “Proposal: news.admin.net-abuse.moderated”, in news.admin.net-abuse.misc (Usenet). From the entry rmgroup

Meaning of kook

  1. noun An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
  2. noun A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

Full definition of kook

Questions about kook in a sentence

How do you use kook in a sentence?
Kook is used as a noun. For example: “The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks.”
What is a short sentence with kook?
“Not every day some kook points a gun at me.”
What does kook mean?
Kook means an eccentric, strange or crazy person.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kook (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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