Sentence examples for loon from inspiring English sources

It looked like something arranged by a loon.

These are no longer the thoughts of a loon who loafs in his underwear all day, but the informed opinions of a powerful official.

"What an elitist loon".This vignette captures rather well the secret of Mrs Palin's appeal.

The prime minister has become the butt of jokes for commissioning an artificial lake, complete with mock canoes and recordings of the call of the loon, for the G20 summit's media centre which sits just yards from the real Lake Ontario.

As a fragile adult he daubs his walls with multicoloured diagrams and numbers, and is dismissed as a lazy loon until he cracks an elusive code.The novel is a hunt for the truth about this solitary cryptographer.

At others he seems like a bit of a loon, such as in his published correspondence with Philip Johnson, an American architect who handled Klein with impressive patience.The show moves chronologically, from his earliest monochromatic canvasses to his sponges, "Anthropométries" and fire paintings.

"What a loon," thought Governor Palin.

See also grebe; loon.

(Young loons, however, are buoyant and pop up like corks from their first attempts at dives.) Loons are generally found singly or in pairs, but some species, especially the Arctic loon, or black-throated diver (G. arctica), winter or migrate in flocks.

The common loon is the official state bird.

The last shots of the rebellion were fired on June 3 at Loon Lake, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Frenchman's Butte, where a few mounted men under NWMP Superintendant Sam Steele skirmished with the retreating Cree.