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How to use lunatic in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, adjective

Lunatic means an insane person. Example: “While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.”

Examples of lunatic by meaning

nounAn insane person.

  • While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

adjectiveRelating to the Moon; lunar.

  • As the narrator turns his attention to the moon itself and its Lunatic inhabitants, Heinsius seems to draw on the True History, but is still within the confines of the Icaromenippus.1996, Joel C. Relihan, “Menippus in Antiquity and the Renaissance”, in R. Bracht Branham, Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, editors, The Cynics: The...
  • That or I might bounce off something I hit and head back out into space, become the light in the eye of some lunatic observer, looking up at the big blue ball and seeing me bang something in their retina.2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 53, in The Ministry for the Future, New York, N.Y.: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 235

adjectiveInfluenced or affected by the Moon.

  • This I remember: she was false as the lunatic sea.1956 Summer, David R[ytman] Slavitt, “Partiti da Cotesti che son Morti”, in The Kenyon Review, volume XVIII, number 3, Gambier, O.H....

More sentences with lunatic

  • Too many people are unaware of the fact that the lunatics have taken over the asylum.”2012, Mary Higgins Clark, We'll Meet Again, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry the lunatics have taken over the asylum
  • Let us call that in which we differ from this lunatic, our respective bliks.1950, R. M. Hare, Theology and Falsification. From the entry blik
  • "Don't you see he is a lunatic, prince?" whispered Evgenie Pavlovitch in his ear.1913, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Eva M. Martin, The Idiot, Part III, Chapter IV. From the entry touched
  • Or which, in the case of the fandom’s more lunatic fringes, they believe that they are entitled to.2026 July 3, Marina Hyde, “The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal”, in The Guardian…. From the entry people pleaser
  • What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?2007, Kirsten Lobe, chapter 7, in French Trysts: Secrets of a Courtesan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN…. From the entry oo oo aa aa
  • I was expecting a lunatic yelling profanities.1999, Jan Blackstone-Ford, The Custody Solutions Sourcebook, page 196. From the entry throw
  • Biting the words back and swallowing them was harder than swallowing the vile concoctions of lunatic herbmasters, but she managed.1998, Michelle West, The Uncrowned King (The Sun Sword; book two), DAW Books, →ISBN, page 414. From the entry herbmaster
  • He was mad, reeling about and gesticulating at the rushing train, and champing and gurgling like a lunatic.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 200. From the entry champ
  • There was no use reporting a lunatic.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry stylo
  • In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic.1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous…. From the entry misoneism
  • A windigo is an Indian who has eaten, or who (perhaps a poor lunatic) says he wants to eat, human flesh.1923, Rev. P. Duchaussois, O.M.I., “Chapter XXIII: The Children off the Woods: The Cree Indians”, in Mid Snow and Ice: The Apostles off…. From the entry windigo
  • Well, I don't say that he is strictly a lunatic, but there is obviously a screw loose somewhere.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry screw loose
  • Is this a lunatic asylum, or only a boozorium?1910, Unattributed, chapter 1, in New Nick Carter Weekly #714, page 13. From the entry boozorium
  • This guy's a lunatic, a psycho.2023 April 5, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, spoken by Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy). From the entry eat someone for breakfast
  • You see the occasional frustrated libidinous lunatics walking along Johnson Street kickboxing at the wheelie bins and spreading the contents all over the road.2005, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis And Lunacies, page 85. From the entry wheelie bin
  • Maniac, lunatic, call him Snoop Eastwood.1992, “Deep Cover”, in Deep Cover, performed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, SOLAR Records. From the entry Eastwood
  • And I am not going to gamble half our resources on as crazy an effort as this, masterminded by a mouthful of planetless lunatics.1961, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 20, Issues 1-6, page 163. From the entry planetless
  • The lady rode hastily away, and electrified her relatives at dinner by telling them of her escape from a family of dangerous lunatics.1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It. From the entry at large
  • It's there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment.2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived…. From the entry good sense
  • Unreliable narrators are connivers, lunatics, and innocents, but what they all have in common is their unreliability as storytellers, their rejection or ignorance of the truth.2011, Judy Doenges, “The Truthless Narrator”, in Andrea Barrett, Peter Turchi, editors, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their…. From the entry unreliable narrator
  • He was a lunatic drunk and started sing songs that lasted into the early hours of the morning and resulted in many weekend lock-ins in the village pub.2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever, page 53. From the entry lock-in
  • Poor old Sedgwick had been chased around the rugger pitch by a lunatic in a car, and then seen his researcher covered in spew from a drunken student.2001, Douglas Maddon, The English Department's Whores, page 247. From the entry spew
  • The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.2000, Sarah L. Higley, “Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet”, in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture…. From the entry conlanging
  • In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision, and that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping," is the cry of the true lunatic?1995, David Peoples, Janet Peoples, 12 Monkeys. From the entry Chicken Little
  • The right to caretakership of lunatics and (remarkably) spendthrifts vested originally in their nearest agnate relative, though later a caretaker could be appointed by the authorities.1967, John Anthony Crook, Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C. - 212 A.D., Cornell University Press, page 118. From the entry caretakership
  • His pinched face, with its wispish silver growths, bent pince-nez, cap crushed slightly on one side, and air of portentous, almost lunatic solemnity, lent itself to more than portraiture.1928, Robert Byron, “Gardenias and Sweetpeas”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred…. From the entry wispish
  • It stands not far under these circumstances from the lunatic asylum and leaves a memory of nerve-wreck, or even of cowardice, which does not minister to self-respect.1908, The Lancet, page 410. From the entry nerve-wreck
  • A Derbyshire webster who proposed to cure a lunatic with a paper charm in the reign of Charles I demanded £3 down, and £3 more when the patient was cured.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 242. From the entry webster
  • To begin with he resembles the candidate rather closely, for while an idiot or natural fool cannot vote, the vote of a lunatic given during a lucid interval is good.1909, The Tatler 1901-1929. From the entry natural fool

Meaning of lunatic

  1. noun An insane person.
  2. adjective Crazed, mad, insane, demented.
  3. adjective Relating to the Moon; lunar.

Full definition of lunatic

Questions about lunatic in a sentence

How do you use lunatic in a sentence?
Lunatic is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “While there are other races (or individuals—heaven forgive me, I am no ethnologist) who think you a criminal or a lunatic unless you carefully plod along from step to step like a hippopotamus out of water.”
What is a short sentence with lunatic?
“Maniac, lunatic, call him Snoop Eastwood.”
What does lunatic mean?
Lunatic means an insane person.

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