How to Use loon in a Sentence

loon

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  • Share [Findings] In Maine, a loon stabbed a bald eagle through the heart.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • From somewhere out in the night came the hauntingly wild cry of a loon.
    — Tim Folger, National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • And picked the wrong loon to mess with, Jason Bittel writes for Nat Geo.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • The loon breeds in the Arctic tundra during the summer.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Near the dead eagle, Maine wildlife warden Neal Wykes had found a dead loon chick.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2020
  • The dining room's defaced by this tantrum-throwing loon.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Lydia comes off like an Altman loon who is soon to be exposed.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The stories featured the loon, whale, moose and other animals of the region.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Going by a stretch of eight games after his return from knee surgery in mid-January, Ainge might have seemed to be a bit of a loon.
    — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Moose sightings are frequent, as are haunting loon calls.
    — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Abnormally cold weather in Wisconsin iced up the wings of migrating loons and caused dozens of them to fall from the sky over the past few days.
    — Ben Kesling, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The loon has long been a sentinel creature for detecting mercury in our waters.
    — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
  • The park is home to a wide variety of birds including loons, herons, eagles and peregrine falcons.
    — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The birds are migrating to the Arctic to breed and this loon, which previously showed up at the preserve, may have gotten blown off course, Buzard said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Another day, a loon family of three sailed past me, as proudly as if on parade.
    — Susan Lapinski, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • On Monday, nearly three dozen loon enthusiasts showed up to watch from the shoreline.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • According to the preamble, 30% of dead loons in a Wisconsin study were lead-poisoned.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
  • At the bottom, a loon, known in Ojibwe re-creation narratives as an Earth-Diver, anchors the remaking of the world.
    — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • They have been shown to be beneficial to loon production.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
  • Many of the property’s 93 guest rooms have lakefront views (as well as loon listening privileges).
    — Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • Officials are caring for a common loon and a western grebe that were recovered with oil on their bodies.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Staffers hang out in a lactation pod, in an office where nobody breast-feeds; pledge-drive contributions are heralded with the call of the common loon.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The new state seal features a loon amid wild rice, to replace the image of a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with a rifle at the ready.
    — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • If reproduction rates had stayed at 1980s levels, the average loon parents in Ontario would now be having four young over a five-year span.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • With more freezing temperatures possible, more of the birds could come tumbling down, loon experts say.
    — Ben Kesling, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • You’re being challenged by some right-wing loon who’s carrying on about socialism and handouts and taxing and spending.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Kravitz is feline and fiercely lovely, a girl with her own private pain and motivations; Dano feints and giggles, a simpering loon.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The 2021 Memorial Day weekend also brought other exciting loon news.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
  • Ash turned Dina into the breakout character, a brash, bird-loving, oddly logical loon with people skills gleaned from Full Metal Jacket.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Campers venture out into the untrammeled waters for days without seeing another person or hearing anything but the soprano trill of a loon.
    — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020

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