How to Use boffo in a Sentence

boffo

adjective

• That made for what Variety might call boffo box office.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The central conflict here is between Nigel's desire to write what's in his heart and Nick's desire to create a boffo commercial hit.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• But first, the horror master has a new/old hit with It, his 31-year-old horror tale that’s scaring up fresh business in bookstores thanks to the boffo movie adaptation.
  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
• The stock had risen nearly 300% so far this year, prior to Wednesday's release of the company's boffo financials.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2018
• So far, the show is getting boffo, if decidedly mixed, ratings.
  — vanityfair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
• Roseanne Barr plays a Trump supporter on the show, prompting a call from the president Wednesday night congratulating her on the show's boffo ratings.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2018
• Yet when Iowans caucus in three weeks, her boffo performance Tuesday probably didn’t win her too many die-hard supporters.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• The shrine does boffo business offering charms and ceremonial purifications that protect cell phones and laptops and even blogs and ISP service from bad mojo.
  — Brian Ashcraft, WIRED, 22 June 2009
• Big budgets, supersized casts, boffo box office openings.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 July 2018
• This writer distributed boxes of Zalatimo baklava and semolina cookies at Fortune's offices, and the reviews were boffo.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• Sime wielded a thick black pencil that split infinitives, popularized inventive adjectives and nouns (hoofer, chantoosies, warblers, kidvid, boffo) and turned other nouns into verbs (authored, readied, helmed).
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Dr. Tversky was a boffo extrovert, practically leaking self-confidence.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
• Cowboys, Packers, Patriots, Steelers, Giants, etc.—will continue to produce boffo numbers.
  — Andrew Brandt, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024