LOON in a Sentence

Learn LOON from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for LOON, such as:"Peace, thou crazy loon," cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.


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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LOON
loon
 n.  a worthless lazy fellow
 n.  large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
Classic Sentence:
1  "Peace, thou crazy loon," cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
Example Sentence:
1  Unfortunately most of the people I know were willing to follow the official or mainstream line and thought I was some kind of loon for suggesting otherwise.