Example sentences for: loonie

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

  • Mulroney rhymes with loonie .

  • Once the design was released, the name bruin was suggested by many people, but the name that appears to be winning is doubloonie, combining the double loonie with a reference to a traditional coin said to be favoured by pirates—again, a not-too-subtle satirical reference to the appetite for taxation of most governments.

  • (Only the Royal Canadian Mint refers to the loonie as a dollar coin.)

  • An economics professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia is urging Canadians to ditch the "loonie," as the country's dollar is fondly called, and join a monetary union with the United States.

  • Canada almost didn't have a loonie.


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