How to Use batty in a Sentence

batty

adjective
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  • The walks the staff as a whole allowed last year drove Chris Woodward nearly batty.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
  • The invented exploits of the Harfoots and their star-man guest may drive purists batty.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The donning of a batty hat—a tiara, a basket of fruit, a steering wheel!—is a fail-safe way to signal your strangeness.
    — Michael Avedon, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Donald Trump and Joe Biden sent video messages — both of which drove me a little batty at times.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Your little one will go batty for these sweet, homemade bat wings.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That’s why Joe Biden’s battle-for-the-soul-of-America business drives me batty.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Are there more batty relatives lurking out there in the Amazon?
    — National Geographic, 2 May 2016
  • These batty pumpkins come together with a bit of black poster board and a printable pattern.
    — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Like any coach, Kerr is driven batty by rookies, but Moody might not be a typical rookie.
    — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That’s not to say a phone, laptop or a smartwatch will suddenly go batty after two years; the process is usually much more subtle than that.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Your kids will go batty for this fun and colorful pillow project, which doubles as cool bedroom Halloween decor.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The most enjoyable part of the first two films was how every nerve in Dracula's batty body was stretched to the limit by being a single father and grandfather.
    — Rick Bentley, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • That’s because the bat has a lifetime of batty experiences that shape its worldview, not to mention a brain and a body utterly unlike our own.
    — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • The first two films revealed that every nerve in Dracula’s batty body was stretched to the limit by being a single father and grandfather.
    — Rick Bentley, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • But that's to the film's benefit; with so many pieces in play, Miike is freed up to orchestrate one batty setpiece after another.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Because the virus has a few genes that aren’t quite batty, researchers think the virus also spent time in an intermediate host before jumping to humans.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
  • An average person might go mildly batty listening to piped-in Christmas tunes for 10 hours a day, five days a week, for two months, but among the theme park staff are genuine believers.
    — Melena Ryzik Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The Batty caves are not now notably batty but were undeniably home to batty occupants around 1964.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • This healthy dollop of Christmas camp, which is a little batty by even Netflix holiday movie standards, is eager to give Lohan something to do.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2022
  • For much of the time, their status is something like that of beloved, deaf, and slightly batty old folk who cannot expect to be at the center of the family, but who are made to feel included on important occasions.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Because people out there – parents, pundits, politicians – have gone batty.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most amusing aspects of the movie — and of Swinton’s characteristically batty-brainy performance — is the swiftness with which Alithea gets used to having a 3,000-year-old djinn for company.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • These colorful creatures are filled with goodies that will make kids go absolutely batty.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Still others are batty, squirrelly, bug-eyed, cockeyed cuckoos, who are mad as March hares, who are crazy as coots, loons, or bedbugs, who come at us like bats out of hell with their monkeyshines and drive us buggy with their horsing around.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Twitter’s most recent version of the bird logo has a rationale (PDF) that is way less batty, but not necessarily less studied.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
  • Of course, the spectre of a batty old man with a cell phone has taken on geopolitical significance in 2019, when a Presidential tweet has the power to jolt markets and disrupt the global order.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Remember Tipper Gore’s batty crusade against rap records?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Few things drive conservative voters battier than phony politicians, those who say one thing and do another to avoid hard choices.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 20 July 2017
  • We are inundated with data on sleep, recovery, blood sugar, etc., all of which is eventually going to drive us batty through too many data points that may not even prove useful.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2021
  • There’s no shortage of creatively batty jokes, all inspired by popularly festive motifs like witches, skeletons, and ghosts, oh my!
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 18 July 2019

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