Example Sentences

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Everyone thinks they can do it: players, parents, students, boosters, administrators, TV yappers, dogs, cats, radio loonies, and sports columnists at financial newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

“All those lucky loonies I was giving her paid off,” Mr. MacDonald said of Ms. Dopp accepting his proposal.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022

Being from Canada, God’s own country, I feel bad for Americans because leaving loonies and toonies under pillows is so much easier than carefully wadding up paper money.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2018

Her father John Barrymore, of the Barrymore acting dynasty – “The great line of loonies from which I come,” as she puts it – wasn’t around much.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2017

Kurt dug out a handful of coins and picked out enough loonies and toonies to make ten dollars, and handed it over.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory