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
  • Are bookies bound to become extinct, not just in real life, but on the show as well?
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2024
  • Rose had to commit a crime to gamble, seeking out bookies to make his bets.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • So why bet with a bookie when there are so many legal options?
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Wilson recalled that some of the bookies became customers at the bar.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • And betting is no longer just a casino bookie set up in Las Vegas.
    Rivan Stinson, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Loreen’s anthem of intense love had been the bookies’ favorite.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • This forced gamblers to either bet with a bookie or an offshore site.
    Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • When sports betting was prohibited, the bookie on the street corner or the telephone line, was often hiding in plain sight.
    U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024

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