How to Use boss in a Sentence

boss

noun

• Has its boss lost his job for what seems to be a massive screwup?
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• There’s no final boss to beat; the only goal is to try your best.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• Maybe everything was grand, and then there was a regime change, and the new boss won’t talk to you.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• Rodriguez said two reasons propelled him to chase the chance to be the big boss.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• But frown with your co-workers and clients and bosses, not at them.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• His new boss and old friend needed to know what happened.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Business Is the world’s richest person the world’s worst boss?
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• That’s what happened to Carmen, the Nicaraguan woman who is afraid to tell her boss she is hurt.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2023
• The comments marked Pence's marked his clearest break yet with his former boss, and Trump wasn't pleased.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Aug. 2023
• Just one text to my boss, Simone Swink, and 22 hours later my plane touched down in Kahului.
  — Becky Worley, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Su’s boss instructs her to lie about his whereabouts on calls from both his wife and his mistress.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• Evan Spiegel says the company’s My AI chatbot helped a user learn how to ask a boss for more pay.
  — Nuha Dolby, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• That could be a hacker, a jealous ex, a relative or even your boss.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
• In an ideal world, your boss and colleagues could provide or point you to those resources.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Shopping for a great gift for your bestie or your mom one of those things that can completely stop you in your tracks—but picking the best gifts for boss?
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2023
• Kirk, her boss at the time, made her departure sound less voluntary.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 29 Feb. 2024
• Paxton’s chief deputy, Brent Webster, was passed over to fill in until his boss’s trial.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2023
• Biden will be hoping to follow the example of his former boss.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• This game isn’t content to drop players into an open arena and tell them to throw all their gadgets at a big boss.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
• Dennis had two reasons to impress: a new fan base, and an old boss who is very familiar with PIR.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 24 June 2023
• The drug boss came up with an impromptu plan to kidnap the president of the tribunal and force him to reverse the decision.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders endorsed her former boss at the rally.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• What’s more, 3 in 4 workers have thought about resigning because of a mean colleague or boss.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• His boss, Villanueva, was up for reelection that fall and losing badly in the polls.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• After a rival boss attempts to eliminate Stan and his team, Charlie is left on his own to avenge his friend.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Should remote worker bring up boss’s mean emails or look for another job?
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2023
• Fleet managers, as they are called, are technically their own bosses, but John spends his days at the beck and call of the company’s app.
  — Amy Martyn, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
• The agency cleared its own top bosses and those at the central government of any wrongdoing.
  — TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Earning and maintaining the trust of an NFL club’s top bosses is perhaps Telesco’s lead trait.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024