Loon

//ˈluːn//

"Loon" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Why is it called "loon"?

What's a loon?

Because there's a red-throated loon on the coin.

Tom is a loon.

Jelle Van Loon, of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, demonstrates a prototype hand planter.

You always make me out to be some loon.

Stefan looked at Isabella like she was a loon.

Tom said you were a loon.

An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

What's it like to be a loon? / I liken it to a balloon

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The diuell damne thee blacke, thou cream-fac'd Loone: Where got'ſt thou that Gooſe-looke.

The Loone is an ill ſhap'd thing like a Cormorant; but that he can neyther goe nor flye; he maketh a noiſe ſometimes like a Sovvgelders horne.

[O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain […]

He came again to her and she said: ‘Run swifter than the deer, be more cunning than the beaver, dive deeper than the loon.’

And I listened for a voice;— / But my heart was all I heard; / Not a screech-owl, not a loon, / Not a tree-toad said a word.

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