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Example sentences for: cuckoo

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

She has been practicing for this inevitable terrible event lately, scoring Elizabeth Dole as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , admitting to a fondness for John McCain, and having great fun at the expense of Al Gore and George W. Bush, the two scions likely to fight it out in 2000.
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
1 If you ever do something that's listed in the DSM as a symptom, it means psychiatrists think you're cuckoo.
This notion was once a staple of big novels (see Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), and Exley plays it for all it is worth, ennobling himself through nausea.
As Chief said in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , "It's the truth, even if it didn't happen."