booby

How To Use booby In A Sentence

• She reached the hatchway and checked to see if it was booby-trapped. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
• Perched on the back of the large booby, the small finch then sucks its blood.
• Flatware is not the etiquette booby-trap that people seem to think. Miss Manners
• Combat engineers learn how to breach minefields, lay minefields, set boobytraps, build field-expedient explosives, and other skills that would be very valuable to a terrorist recruit.
• There was a small gap, large enough to see that there were no wires or magnets or contacts inside that might signal a booby-trap circuit. Gideon’s war
• It appeared the car was booby-trapped and the bomb was detonated by remote control.
• Mr. Rogers has sidestepped this potential aesthetic booby trap by installing everything in the 19th-century manner — paintings "skied" on the walls, and sculpture filling the gallery as it would have been seen in its own day — a nonjudgmental approach that simply treats the work as part of our art and cultural history. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
• A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland's police force was killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car in the town of Omagh, police and neighbors said. World Watch
• The 48-hour ban on outbound mail comes after almost a dozen booby-trapped parcels were discovered in Greece and around Europe since Monday, including mail bombs targeting French and Italian leaders and one that reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
• The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.