How to Use bookie in a Sentence

bookie

noun

• Their bookie is giving good odds.
• The grandstands at the turn of the century were filled with gamblers and bookies placing bets on every play of the game.
  — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
• Gets the family deeply into debt because of his gambling addiction, and even bets the money his bookie gave him as a baby gift.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Half a dozen bookies have set up shop beside the track.
  — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024