Example sentences for: cuckoo

How can you use “cuckoo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Translation: University student embraces cuckoo.)

  • 1 If you ever do something that's listed in the DSM as a symptom, it means psychiatrists think you're cuckoo.

  • As Chief said in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , "It's the truth, even if it didn't happen."

  • Elsewhere afield, the curlew , with its cry of courli , is obviously named, as is the cuckoo , whose name is similar in many languages (French coucou , German Kuckuck , Greek kokkux , Latin cuculus ).

  • The plot rips off the familiar one-on-one mind games of The Silence of the Lambs and adds up to nothing more than "a greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as Gorillas in the Mist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to watch the trailer, and for David Edelstein's review in


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