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UK
/bˈuːn/
]
[ US /ˈbun/ ]
[ US /ˈbun/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very close and convivial
boon companions
NOUN
-
a desirable state
enjoy the blessings of peace
a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors
How To Use boon In A Sentence
- In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
- Other animals, such as waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, and baboons, drank from the same troughs.
- The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
- But most Western bankers now acknowledge, as Peter Boone, cohead of research at Brunswick Warburg in Moscow puts it, "" that we ignored for too long the size of the nonpayments crisis. '' A Black Hole
- As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
- Keep an eye out for chacma baboons, but don't get too close! The Sun
- Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane.
- The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
- We are now known as the boodle or boondoggle city. The Chicago Picasso.
- But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?