Words similar to cuckoo

Example sentences for: cuckoo

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

Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)
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
One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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 ).
Comments like “The cuckoo was so named for the one-note song it repeats over and over” came from someone who has never heard the bird's disyllabic call.