How to Use bookie in a Sentence

bookie

noun

• Their bookie is giving good odds.
• The bookies' thought so, the fans thought so and so did the experts.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 11 June 2019
• That suits the bookie with whom the Tribune spoke just fine.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
• At the moment, he's placed third-last by the bookies, with his odds at $6.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• We’re six weeks from the season openers, but the bookies are locked in.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
• Gateways began when course bookie Ted Ware won the lease in a bet in 1943.
  — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2022
• As each one does, bookies will go the way of the typewriter in the computer era.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
• And to be fair to the bookies, George and Charlotte were two of their top picks for the other Cambridge children.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• And the old-time bookie is not dead yet; 13 percent will bet with one, the trade group estimates.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Life has a way of getting in the way of, if not dictating, a bookie’s business.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
• Rose had to commit a crime to gamble, seeking out bookies to make his bets.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Once the kinks are worked out, Vic and Robins agreed, back-alley bookies will largely wither and die.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
• Bets between friends are fine; taking bets like a bookie is not.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Las Vegas is betting against them and the bookies are hardly alone.
  — Tom Withers, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• The numbers racket is run by Archie (Jason Isaacs), a bookie with a heart of gold who also works at the dog track.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• The mob demanded street taxes from bookies, and those who didn’t pay could wind up dead.
  — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
• Back then, it was known as Al’s Bar B-Q and acted as a front for their bookie business which has long since closed.
  — Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu, Bon Appétit, 16 June 2023
• Over the weekend, London bookies put the odds of their getting married this year at five-four.
  — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 6 Feb. 2017
• Then, in February, bookies revealed that Mary was the top pick for a girl’s name while Albert and Arthur were the top boys’s names.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Mar. 2018
• Dustin Johnson, the No. 1 player in the world, and Jordan Spieth have taken turns as the favorite by the bookies.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2017
• Loreen’s anthem of intense love had been the bookies’ favorite.
  — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
• As soon as the night was finally done, the woman hurried straight to her bookie and bet all of her earnings on the Orioles.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
• But that hasn't stopped bookies from laying odds on the possible gender and names for the next little Prince or Princess.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2018
• Schlichter, who feared the bookies would pressure him to throw games, was suspended for the entire 1983 season.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• Meanwhile, 23% plan to bet at a physical casino sportsbook and 20% plan to place a bet with a bookie.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Depending on your faith and access to a bookie, that knowledge alone should be worth the $650 entry fee.
  — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, GQ, 30 Jan. 2018
• Most people will place their bets online or in-person as opposed to with a bookie.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2022
• Hannan looks like the hot favourite according to bookies, with his odds sitting at $1.75.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Trust me, my Lexus-driving bookie friends will survive.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2018
• Such risks are why some local bookies have survived the rise of online sportsbooks.
  — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 26 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024