How to Use bootleg in a Sentence

bootleg

1 of 2 noun

• She was arrested for selling bootlegs online.
• Tonight’s the Night shows for the past 50 years was via bootleg.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
• Nolan keeps it on a bootleg to the right, and the two-point conversion is good.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2021
• Murray kept the ball on the play for a two-yard touchdown on a naked bootleg.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 12 Sep. 2021
• Zach Norris called a bootleg option and gained 8 yards to the 15.
  — Craig Clary, baltimoresun.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Then Ramsey capped it with a fourth-and-goal 1-yard TD run on a naked bootleg.
  — Chris Solari, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
• The misses to which Mayfield were over the middle to Rashard Higgins on first and goal from the 5 and a bootleg left to Landry from the 6.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2020
• At 12, a friend lent him a bootleg rave tape and that changed everything.
  — Alison Coleman, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• The play design called for Fields to run a naked bootleg off play action with Mooney as his first read.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• The only problem was the Ole Miss quarterback kept the ball for a naked bootleg around the corner.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 20 Dec. 2020
• Some even laid out tables of bootleg Kanye T-shirts, caps and sweatshirts with his name and face on them.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• With a bootleg rollout to his right, Peters threw to wide-open tight end Tip Reiman from 15 yards out.
  — Dave Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• The drive picked up rhythm with a screen pass to running back Joe Mixon, and Burrow kept the momentum with a bootleg run to the left side of the field.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2021
• The Browns need to figure out what to do when their play-action, bootleg game gets taken away.
  — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2020
• Ehlinger is quick enough and has the history in college to run the zone read, the quarterback draw or a bootleg in short yardage for the first down.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2022
• That set up a bootleg by Travis, who scampered into the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown run that gave FSU its first lead of the game, 14-7.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• There was this sort of illicit thrill of listening to Smile bootlegs back then.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
• Then, Hipa ran bootleg for the two-point conversion to send the game into overtime.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2021
• Why the Browns aren’t running as much bootleg as in previous weeks.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2021
• The film, which was never released, has a cult following through bootlegs.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Over and over again, Chicago tried to find some breathing room with play action and bootleg plays.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 12 Jan. 2021
• Montana ran a bootleg around right end and wasn’t touched on a 5-yard score, the first rushing touchdown of his career.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Aside from some bootleg copies floating about among Kiss fans, the special was thought to be lost, or perhaps tied to a tree, burned, and then buried.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Allen’s 11-yard touchdown run on a naked bootleg evened the score, which held until the game’s final minutes.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Oct. 2022
• Their ability to make plays on the ground will allow for bootleg and read-option looks.
  — oregonlive, 3 May 2020
• And the story goes, that was destroyed, leaving only bootleg tapes and now footage on YouTube.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2022
• His first pass of the day in 11 on 11 was a bootleg that Stafford threw right into the hands of Cowboys cornerback Maurice Canady.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• Mayden bootlegs left, throws complete, but tight end Jay Rudolph is stopped just short by Kitan Oladapo.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• Turns out, that was YouTubecore at work (which also drove the creation of bootleg T-shirts and album pressings).
  — Catherine Sinow, Ars Technica, 26 Nov. 2020
• It’s unconfirmed how Kimi was providing the streams, but the process of watching bootlegs was definitely simplified for users—just download the smartphone app and press Play.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024

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bootleg

2 of 2 verb

• He bootlegged the show and gave copies to several friends.
• It was bought on DVD and passed around and probably bootlegged and passed around some more.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Many people have a tale of trying to bootleg an iPhone repair.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2020
• The next year in Iowa City, Long faked a handoff into the line and bootlegged around the right side untouched for a touchdown with barely any time left to lead No.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
• It has rarely been screened in theaters and never released for home video, but it has been widely bootlegged.
  — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• At the same time, Olson and his bootlegging compatriots entered town and were warned of the marshals’ movements.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
• Newton got the linebackers and safeties to freeze on a fake to Jonathan Stewart, bootlegged to his left and dropped a pass to a wide-open Dickson, who rumbled for 57 yards before again being dragged down inside the 10.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 9 Oct. 2017
• As tweens, the sisters would spend hours at their grandmother’s atelier, where Nabila would bootleg American styles for them.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023
• But the extras still include a wealth of alternate early takes and demos that have mostly never been released or bootlegged before.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• And the cartoons all look great on the app — a lot of this material is frequently bootlegged onto YouTube in inferior-looking versions.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• But can watching bootlegged or pirated video on the internet get viewers into trouble, too?
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2019
• Most of their neighbors were inside tents, playing video games or watching movies on their cellphones, electricity bootlegged from a city utility box.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, today’s nationalists are happy to demonize a China that bootlegs Mickey Mouse but are silent about the very same China that rounds up internal enemies and puts them in concentration camps.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 June 2019
• He bootlegged the show and gave copies to several friends.
• It was bought on DVD and passed around and probably bootlegged and passed around some more.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Many people have a tale of trying to bootleg an iPhone repair.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2020
• The next year in Iowa City, Long faked a handoff into the line and bootlegged around the right side untouched for a touchdown with barely any time left to lead No.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 30 Sep. 2017
• It has rarely been screened in theaters and never released for home video, but it has been widely bootlegged.
  — Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• At the same time, Olson and his bootlegging compatriots entered town and were warned of the marshals’ movements.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
• Newton got the linebackers and safeties to freeze on a fake to Jonathan Stewart, bootlegged to his left and dropped a pass to a wide-open Dickson, who rumbled for 57 yards before again being dragged down inside the 10.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 9 Oct. 2017
• As tweens, the sisters would spend hours at their grandmother’s atelier, where Nabila would bootleg American styles for them.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023
• But the extras still include a wealth of alternate early takes and demos that have mostly never been released or bootlegged before.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• And the cartoons all look great on the app — a lot of this material is frequently bootlegged onto YouTube in inferior-looking versions.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• But can watching bootlegged or pirated video on the internet get viewers into trouble, too?
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2019
• Most of their neighbors were inside tents, playing video games or watching movies on their cellphones, electricity bootlegged from a city utility box.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, today’s nationalists are happy to demonize a China that bootlegs Mickey Mouse but are silent about the very same China that rounds up internal enemies and puts them in concentration camps.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 June 2019

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