How To Use Booby In A Sentence
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She reached the hatchway and checked to see if it was booby-trapped.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Perched on the back of the large booby, the small finch then sucks its blood.
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Flatware is not the etiquette booby-trap that people seem to think.
Miss Manners
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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.
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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
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It appeared the car was booby-trapped and the bomb was detonated by remote control.
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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 . . .
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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
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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
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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So you lose your temper, and come out in an article which you think is going to finish "Ananias," proving him a booby who doesn't know enough to understand even a lyceum-lecture, or else a person that tells lies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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My nervous dance consists of much weight-shifting and hand gestures similar to the mating dance of the blue-footed booby.
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Blood mingled with broken glass on the ground where a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Sadr City.
Explosions Across Baghdad
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When it comes to relationships, birthday presents are booby traps wrapped in red ribbons.
Times, Sunday Times
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During my youth, we were constantly running away from the shelling, bombing, booby-trapped cars and assassinations that the Syrian Army was perpetrating in Lebanon against the Christian population.
Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians
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Aft of these the foreboom and booby of the main-hatch took all the space that was not needed for the pumps and dressing-pens.
Captains Courageous
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Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
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Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
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Graham and the team have now been presented with a wooden spoon booby prize for their efforts.
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I'm getting estimates on what it would cost to booby-trap the star," Lee quips to Comic Riffs, "because I can't bear the thought of people walking all over me!
STAN LEE gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
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A booby-trap car bomb killed Constable Ronan Kerr outside his home in Omagh, where 29 men, women and children were murdered in 1998.
Horror in Omagh as bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman
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US intelligence estimates there are about 3,000 insurgents dug in behind defences and booby traps in the city of about 300,000 people.
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Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen's dressing-room, or the green-room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop-till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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They have blown up power pylons and blocked roads with booby-trapped vehicles.
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We'd made big booby traps on the stairs, big holes hidden in the steps.
STUART: A Life Backwards
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He had been accused of rigging up a booby trap to set the house on fire as she slept to collect 190,000 insurance.
The Sun
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The lawyer said the defendants were all involved in a joint enterprise to plant a booby-trap device under the car.
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The documents also contained warnings about booby trap devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nay, farther," continued Mr. Silton, "there are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which
The Man of Feeling
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
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Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
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They put a bucket of water on top of his door as a booby trap.
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The booby prize was awarded to the worst singer in the competition.
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Nicholas Fabian was having affair with colleague and booby-trapped his pregnant wife's car, with her son also in vehicle
Ex-soldier found guilty of trying to murder wife with grenade
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Until you have developed your sea legs, boats can be floating booby traps, with things like cleats placed awkwardly around the deck to stub bare feet or even send a guest tumbling overboard.
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They will barricade the building and set booby traps.
Times, Sunday Times
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They checked the gas canisters for booby traps but found none.
The Sun
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She too embarks on a lazy plot of catastrophic collapse, winding up confined in a local booby hatch.
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I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: – I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; – and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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He took a step, then froze, belatedly thinking of booby traps.
DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
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It contains advice for every imaginable hostile situation, from how to booby-trap a napkin, to how to conduct a drive-by shooting, to how to recognize a rattlesnake or treat a scorpion sting.
The Longest War
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Mr. Hallam, whose judgment in such things is not often at fault, thinks Slender was intended as "a satire on the brilliant youth of the provinces," such as they were "before the introduction of newspapers and turnpike roads; awkward and boobyish among civil people, but at home in rude sports, and proud of exploits at which the town would laugh, yet perhaps with more courage and good-nature than the laughers.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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They will barricade the building and set booby traps.
Times, Sunday Times
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I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons.
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When it comes to relationships, birthday presents are booby traps wrapped in red ribbons.
Times, Sunday Times
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When in his own house he slept in the spare bedroom, the entry to which he booby-trapped.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Boobies that nest on the ground, the masked gannet and the brown booby, are also found on remote cays of the Great Barrier Reef.
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You'll witness the same panoramas of life that Darwin once did as you trek through blue-footed booby colonies and watch huge tortoises roam a raw lava landscape.
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The documents also contained warnings about booby trap devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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While sitting on the roof of a skiff, crossing the Lagoon of Christmas Island (Kiritimati), this brown booby decided to visit with me long enough to get this shot.
Field & Stream
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Mr. Howells uses the word booby in the latter signification, and it may be heard frequently in eastern
Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
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As for himself, he took his stand beside the booby-hatch, where he could gauge the Elsinore, gaze to leeward, and keep his eye on the helmsmen.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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They were expected to check the archaeological site for mines and booby traps before opening it to experts to inspect the damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until Saturday, such booby-trap attacks had badly maimed two other officers but killed nobody.
Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman
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Don't forget the packaging (the thick plastic encasing a new Venus Quad-Blade Mach 3000 is more accurately described as a booby trap).
Simran Sethi: Life Cycle: Will You Soap My Back?
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My kids use the word booby, I had hoped for a higher brow insult, but alas, no.
Back To The Future « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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Two brutish and boobyish Titans -- they've wholly corrupted our morals,
Punch Among the Planets
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Police were checking the area for booby traps.
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In the absence of explosive materials the enemy may resort to non-explosive booby-trap techniques.
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
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Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
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Other reports said the blast was caused by a roadside booby-trap or a rocket fired near a school due to be used as a polling station on Sunday.
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They checked the gas canisters for booby traps but found none.
The Sun
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Ten or fifteen years of expertise gone in a second to a booby trap.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whereas mines are factory made products, which can be neutralised by following known and relatively simple safety procedures, unexploded ordnance and booby traps must be treated individually and can be unstable and unpredictable.
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“I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: — I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; - and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.”
Evelina
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Mr. Hallam, whose judgment in such things is not often at fault, thinks Slender was intended as “a satire on the brilliant youth of the provinces,” such as they were “before the introduction of newspapers and turnpike roads; awkward and boobyish among civil people, but at home in rude sports, and proud of exploits at which the town would laugh, yet perhaps with more courage and good-nature than the laughers.”
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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The ceremony also includes the dreaded Golden Bull booby prizes for the year's most baffling gobbledygook.
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I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons.
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Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
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Above my head in the argusia bush a red-footed booby chick, the size of a domestic fowl, peers down at me.
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Smashing padlocks and deadbolts, the men checked for booby traps as they felt their way by flashlight from room to room.
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Not with another of those decaying relics of past destruction they called booby traps but with an actual ship, under the control of living, sentient beings.
Chain of Attack
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Since 2007, IRA dissidents have planted dozens of such booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers.
Booby-trap bomb kills Northern Ireland policeman
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Taking the full brunt of a booby trap device, he died of appalling wounds before a rescue helicopter could reach him.
The Sun
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The booby prize was awarded to the worst singer in the competition.
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In the ensuing panic, it appears other hostages had inadvertently set off booby traps laid in the theatre by the rebels.
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And of course, that little shit has no right to try and ambush me or get me with a booby trap!
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Also found were stacks of rocket and mortar launchers, several anti-aircraft machine guns, several boxes of plastic explosives with detonators and other equipment for making bombs and booby traps, said Sgt.
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Flak commanders took advantage of the fact that Allied fighter-bombers pounced on everything that moved on the Norman roads by creating ingenious ‘low-flying-aircraft booby traps.’
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For seabirds some of the largest colonies of tropical Atlantic seabirds are found on the Fernando de Noronha islands, with large numbers species including the black noddy or Anous minutis, the brown noddy Anous stolidus, the sooty tern Sterna fuscata, the fairy tern Gygis alba, the masked booby Sula dactylatra, the brown booby Sula leucogaster, the red footed booby Sula sula; the magnificent frigatebird Fragata magnificans and the red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus.
Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil
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On spotting the pug marks of a tigress and three cubs, a cub walked into the booby trap laid by officials in the Nature Park opened opposite the zoo in September 2003.
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On weedy or messy bottoms, I often fish with a small nymph on a dropper about 18 inches from the booby.
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The documents also contained warnings about booby trap devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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They backed up onto a second booby-trap, leaving five of the seven crewmen, including Lance Cpl.
Can Needles Soothe Wounded Warriors?
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Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search fordeadly chemical agentsbut stumble instead upon anelaborate cover-upthat inverts the purpose of theirmission.
6 Movie Clips and Behind the Scenes Footage from GREEN ZONE Starring Matt Damon – Collider.com
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All I can think of that austrilia boob thing is that some asshat doesn't like small-breasted wimmins and wants to feed his own silicone booby fetish and thinks he can get more giant ta-ta's in his porno mags and movies this way.
"The Scooby Doo Model"
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Smashing padlocks and deadbolts, the men checked for booby traps as they felt their way by flashlight from room to room.
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Major seabird and waterbird colonies include those of red-footed booby Sula sula (3,000-4,000 individuals) on Half Moon Caye, brown booby Sula leucogaster on Man O'War Caye, and common noddy Anous stolidus on Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
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No. How could they be certain the booby-trap would be triggered by the police?
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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They will barricade the building and set booby traps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then rig up booby traps in case anybody else tries to get in.
The Sun
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He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
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It makes bureaucratic booby traps, laid down by government civil servants at their final destination, cruel indeed.
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While a lucky few on Cross's Christmas list score a shiny, new VHS player, the bulk of them receive the ultimate in booby prizes: a network-branded bath towel.
Going To The Movies With Hollywood’s Crappiest Christmas Gifts » MTV Movies Blog
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I most admire and adore; - and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.
Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
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They were expected to check the archaeological site for mines and booby traps before opening it to experts to inspect the damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spring, in the character of "ethereal mildness," was unquestionably a female; but here she is "unsexed from the crown to the toe," and changed into an awkward hobbletehoy, who, having passed his boyhood in the country, is a booby who blushes black at the gaze of his own brother, and if brought into the company of the lasses, would not fail to faint away in a fit, nor revive till his face felt a pitcherful of cold water.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Peer Steinbr ü ck , the German finance minister , a special booby prize for premature triumphalism.
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Athens also banned outbound mail after 13 booby-trapped parcels were found in Greece and around Europe.
What's News: World-Wide
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They put a bucket of water on top of his door as a booby trap.
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He was to accumulate a batch of more heroic-sounding titles ” Pathfinder, Deerslayer, Hawkeye ” as if Cooper wished he hadn't initially stuck the poor man with such a boobyish name as "Bumppo.
In the Heart of the Heartland
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When I approached her, which I did with the reverence due to royalty, and expressed, though I believe but in very unintelligible terms, the mixture of surprize and pleasure with which my meeting her had inspired me — I endeavoured to be very polite; but was, I am persuaded, more boobyish in that moment, than I ever was in any preceding one, throughout my existence.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
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Visitor Phil Burton's birdie two on the short sixth hole secured for him the Super Sawng award whilst the Banana Booby managed the transfer unbruised to be awarded to Steve Nowell for his abominable eighteen shots on hole seven.
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If it really was a bomb, unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap.
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In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic boobyism, and his lack-brain originality, this pithless hereditary squireling is quite inimitable and irresistible; -- a tall though slender specimen of most effective imbecility, whose manners and character must needs all be from within, because he lacks force of nature to shape or dress himself by any model.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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Then rig up booby traps in case anybody else tries to get in.
The Sun
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Aldabra is the main breeding site in the Indian Ocean for red-tailed tropic bird Phaethon rubricauda, red-footed booby Sula Sula, greater frigatebird Fregata minor and lesser frigatebird F. ariel.
Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
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Marriage is a booby-trap, Tweed, a minefield you walk through every day.
COVER STORY
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More important, how to detect the presence of a lethal booby trap.
The Bullet Catchers
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When it comes to relationships, birthday presents are booby traps wrapped in red ribbons.
Times, Sunday Times
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We sometimes use this analogy of a kid's game called 'booby trap' where you have a bunch of little blocks and there's a spring piston and it pushes on them.
Scientists Express Concern About More Big Japan Quakes
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The soldiers had ordered the boy to open bags they suspected had been booby-trapped.
For Israeli army, tests of accountability
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It is not surprising that a woman, young, beautiful and vivacious, living in a court where corruption was all around her, where an unmarried empress was rendering herself notorious by her gallantries, stung to the quick by the utter neglect of her husband, insulted by the presence of his mistresses, and disgusted by his unmitigated boobyism, should have sought solace in the friendship of others.
The Empire of Russia
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A companion line of feature banks will include everything from sound and voice effects to coin-activated motion features such as whip attacks and booby-traps from the iconic films!
Toy Fair 2008: Quarter Scale Jones Figures Coming Your Way | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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When it comes to relationships, birthday presents are booby traps wrapped in red ribbons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, instead of occupying the outpost, Gul said the Taliban booby-trapped it with bombs.
Chinook aflame at time of Afghan crash
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Many had been booby trapped.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dogs are not used to detect mines or booby traps - they are only trained to detect raw explosives such, as improvised explosive devices, and weapons and ammunition.
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In his consequential verdancy, his aristocratic boobyism, and his lack-brain originality, this pithless hereditary squireling is quite inimitable and irresistible; ” a tall though slender specimen of most effective imbecility, whose manners and character must needs all be from within, because he lacks force of nature to shape or dress himself by any model.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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Samuel gazed upwards at the handsome long nose and rich lips of his elder cousin, so experienced, so agreeable, so renowned, so esteemed, so philosophic, and admitted to himself that he had lived to the age of forty in a state of comparative boobyism.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Boobies that nest on the ground, the masked gannet and the brown booby, are also found on remote cays of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Unidentified Man #3: (Speaking foreign language) MCEVERS: This soldier, who didn't want to give his name for fear of losing his job, says two months ago he watched as nearly 20 soldiers brutally beat an insurgent whod confessed to booby-trapping a house and killing eight Iraqi troops.
Iraqis Hope WikiLeaks Will Shed Light On Brutal Past
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He had been accused of rigging up a booby trap to set the house on fire as she slept to collect 190,000 insurance.
The Sun
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Hodge converted on each occasion, only to see Llanelli arrest their slide with a touchdown from Neil Boobyer.
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I was so awkward a booby, that I dared scarcely speak to her; I was filled with awe and embarrassment in her presence; but I was so inspired that my poetical temperament for the first time broke out in verse; and I fabricated some glowing lines, in which I berhymed the little lady under the favourite name of Sacharissa.
Tales of a Traveller
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The gannet is the largest member of the unfortunately-named booby family and the most common on the Atlantic coast.
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And of course, that little shit has no right to try and ambush me or get me with a booby trap!
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The police did not go near the abandoned car, fearing it was a booby trap.
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Maria Friedman makes the innkeeper the epitome of narrow-minded prejudice, Jo Stone-Fewings embodies the idiocy of the local squirearchy and Teddy Kempner is the boobyish village bobby.
The Invisible Man – review
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The ability to laugh when my automatic reflexes urge me to scream or cry or hide or run away to Las Vegas helps me stay relatively sane as I stumble along the unmarked booby-trapped paths of parenthood.
Len Filppu: Parental Survival Tip # 1: Develop Mirth at Birth
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It's a standard little curse, useful for revenge or blackmail — but in this case, the wizard had been feeling particularly vengeful, and had booby-trapped the spell, linking it to some very complicated wizardry we couldn't be bothered untangling for any price the victim could pay, so that we couldn't use the usual countercharm.
The Misenchanted Sword
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Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
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Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness and the sad sordor of Experience.
Revenge of the Wimps
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The documents also contained warnings about booby trap devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby.
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He was a genius at creating special booby traps and tripwires, all sorts of custom-made devices designed to inflict maximum pain and damage.
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The booby trap device - called the Stinger - is a mat full of spikes which can be placed into the path of a speeding car to burst its tyres.
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RoboPanda says: there must be a scene in the movie in which an ancient riddle is solved or a booby trap avoided through knowledge of show tunes.
INDIANA JONES BUTTCAM TRAILER
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Unless of course the enemy is way ahead of her and has booby trapped it with protruding bayonets and land mines, which Caitlin spies at the last minute and escapes death - to quote maxwell smart ‘by that much’.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
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Surging prices for synthetic fertilizers and organic foods are shifting attention to guano, an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on this island and more than 20 others off the coast of Peru, where an exceptionally dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds like the guanay cormorant and the Peruvian booby.
Sr. de la Torre, I beg to differ!
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‘The soldiers were very careful in lowering the flags, fearing that the flagpoles were mined or booby trapped,’ a witness told local journalists.
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Uh, first he survives being "finished" in a cruel Aztec tournament, then he kills every one of the raiders who give chase in the jungle – even setting up skewer-happy booby traps.
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He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
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But to have said this would have been to drive away 90 per cent of boobyism, which is ever ready to be deluded, but insists upon gravity and long words from the operators.
London: Saturday, September 16, 1865
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For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not.
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We must have moved all of a foot and a half before we hit a booby trap.
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This time it was definitely a booby trap.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Panzer Elite Booby Trap ability recharge time increased.
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Uh, first he survives being "finished" in a cruel Aztec tournament, then he kills every one of the raiders who give chase in the jungle – even setting up skewer-happy booby traps.
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Here, I say," cried Dyke, as the big German shook hands with him, "who are you calling a booby, Uncle Morgenstern?
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure
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Panzer Elite infantry can be ordered to booby trap any strategic point in the game.
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This Saturday's game - and we can leave Italy out of any Six Nations equation - is a race for the also-rans, the contest for an elliptical wooden utensil, the championship's booby prize.
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Such are the written placards wafered up in the gentlemen’s dressing – room, or the green – room (where there is any), at a private theatre; and such are the sums extracted from the shop – till, or overcharged in the office expenditure, by the donkeys who are prevailed upon to pay for permission to exhibit their lamentable ignorance and boobyism on the stage of a private theatre.
Sketches by Boz
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Negotiated in 1980, the CCW is a major agreement which restricts or prohibits the use of some conventional weapons which can have indiscriminate effects or cause extreme suffering, such as landmines, booby traps, blinding laser weapons and incendiary devices.
- Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Eventually Joseph falls in love with Fanny, a milkmaid, becomes footman to Sir Thomas and Lady Booby, and, together with Mrs Slipslop the chambermaid, attends them for their season in London.
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Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
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A policeman was killed when his booby - trapped car blew up.
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With a kind of resigned despair, he realized that his whole life would be booby-trapped with memories of Robyn.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Their progress through the hotel was slowed by explosives that had been left behind as booby traps by the attackers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The attacking force is advancing with caution because of the danger of booby traps and the risk of civilian casualties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Holden Caulfield, as we know, ends up in the bughouse, the booby hatch, the wacky shack, done in by universal phoniness and the sad sordor of Experience.
Revenge of the Wimps
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Within the first 10 minutes, we had 6 guys wounded from different booby traps, mainly hand grenades.
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To say that a man has adopted a vulgar prejudice, is calculated to give offence to no one but an illiterate booby, who does not know the meaning of the words, or a captious, inflated self-sufficient pedant.
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Similar pressures may be threatening the breeding colonies of red-footed booby of Half-Moon Caye, and of common noddy of Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
