How to Use boondoggle in a Sentence

boondoggle

noun

• Critics say the dam is a complete boondoggle—over budget, behind schedule, and unnecessary.
• This is not a boondoggle walk in the park for the inmates.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
• When all is said and done, that wisecrack may be the best thing to come out of this boondoggle.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 18 June 2018
• There are a few ways of looking at the cost of a $3.5 trillion boondoggle.
  — The Editors, National Review, 29 Sep. 2021
• And of course, DVDs of these boondoggle/pilgrimages are for sale on the show!
  — David Weiss, Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2016
• But by the eighth episode, the gang is all back together again for one last boondoggle.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Why: In a state known for its outlandish mansions, this is the boondoggle that set the standard.
  — Christopher Reynolds, latimes.com, 21 May 2017
• That’s just the point — no one will be accountable for this huge boondoggle.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• These tips will help pick the right plunge for you, and avoid the oil-leaking boondoggle of your wallet’s worst nightmares.
  — Dennis Tang, GQ, 30 June 2017
• The judges were not somebody’s nephew on a boondoggle but were, for the most part, their countries’ best legal minds.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• On its initial rollout, the PPP seemed like a government boondoggle designed to help the haves over the have-nots.
  — Will Jeakle, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• The dock was at risk of turning into a costly boondoggle.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• There’s not so much as a glance in the direction of the electric-vehicle boondoggle.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 June 2024
• But that’s always the juice that allows politicians to call one thing a boondoggle and another a boon.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 4 Feb. 2020
• The Rose Quarter is the second-cheapest project included on the group’s boondoggle list.
  — oregonlive.com, 18 June 2019
• While their jaw-dropping shapes awed the crowd in attendance, their debut was a last-minute boondoggle that could have ended in a no-show.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2021
• That might not seem like such a boondoggle in New York City, where annual tuition is often four times that.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• This sort of hubris always leads to a financial boondoggle.
  — Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
• But why limit our investigations to bad deals from the past when there are so many new boondoggles on the horizon?
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 21 May 2018
• While such bond debt is retired not by tax funds but airport revenues only, the idea smacked to some of a government boondoggle.
  — Bill Turque and Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 8 Feb. 2018
• Both Cox and Allen dismiss it as a government boondoggle.
  — Seema Mehta, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• None of this will placate cynics who see the entire exercise as a boondoggle.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The episode would have been an expensive boondoggle, except for one thing: The district never signed its contract with K12.
  — Sandra Upson, Wired, 16 Sep. 2020
• Bailing out those who have done so much damage to their states and our country already would be a boondoggle of epic proportions.
  — Rick Scott, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• Both Allen and Cox, however, promised to ax construction as soon as they were elected, calling the plan corrupt and a boondoggle.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
• Or will the streetcar be viewed as Mayor Tom Barrett’s $128 million boondoggle?
  — Steve Jagler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2018
• Obama’s fuel standards are a looming boondoggle, and Trump is right to discard them.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• For a while, Charter tried to find the silver lining in the boondoggle deal by promoting Spectrum as the only place for fans to see the Dodgers’ regular season games.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• Several council members have called the project a boondoggle that needs more vetting.
  — Dallas News, 27 May 2020
• Some commentators have called for the Olympics — or, to be more blunt, the IOC’s financial boondoggle — to be scrapped altogether.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2021

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024