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Bogey


Definition:

  • (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (2) He hit cleanly and straight down the 14th fairway to restore equilibrium, as news filtered through that back-to-back bogeys by Scott had left Mickelson alone at the front.
  • (3) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
  • (4) His fourth bogey dragged him back to par with five holes left, his Sunday lead now used up, although he was still in the frame, two shots ahead of Woods, one behind the leaders, Scott and Mickelson.
  • (5) He focuses his rhetoric on the invisible bogey figure in the room, a Democratic politician who happens not to be his actual rival in the contest – the incumbent senator, Kay Hagan – but a more distant figure looming over the race.
  • (6) Gareth Bale: we know Belgium, we might even be their bogey team Read more Saluting Bale’s rise from a “young boy in Cardiff working hard on a dream” to becoming a cannon that “rips the world apart”, it urges the Wales forward to “unleash the dragon, let out the fire inside!” The track was written by Emmet Crowley, a British music lecturer at the Alfonso X el Sabio university in Madrid, and his Costa Rican wife, who has also composed a song about the Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
  • (7) When looked at from this perspective, the fight against forced labour ceases to be a simple battle against abstract economic forces or the bogey-men criminals able to make the most of them.
  • (8) This spectre is the bogey conjured by Mubarak himself.
  • (9) They have found Everton the nearest thing to a bogey club in recent years and Darron Gibson's second‑half winner, his first goal since signing from Manchester United last month , means they have won only two of their last 15 league games at Goodison.
  • (10) With Villa not seriously threatening any improvement to a woeful return of six goals in their last 20 Premier League road trips, Hull killed off the game for a rare win against their biggest bogey team.
  • (11) Watson then recorded his fourth birdie in six holes on the 13th to close within a shot and Furyk did likewise with a birdie on the 11th, only to promptly bogey the next after chipping from one side of the green off the other.
  • (12) "I knew I needed to make birdies and not make bogeys.
  • (13) Dzeko scored either side of half-time and, however scruffy it became, nobody should really be surprised when there was so much riding on the game and Everton have long been considered City's bogey club.
  • (14) On the GOP side, candidates are pushed by an equal and opposite incentive to continue attacking the media, which has long been a favorite bogey figure for hardline American conservatives.
  • (15) Research communications is about engagement not dissemination and this is often where the bogey man, marketing comes into it.
  • (16) In truth, her real bogey-figures were two earlier planning theorists, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier.
  • (17) Westwood experienced all the vagaries on the front nine, having to sink three bogey putts to stay in the picture and grabbing a birdie at the 5th after going into the right-hand side bunker.
  • (18) Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Saturday 4pm ET, Sporting Park ( ESPN, UniMas, TSN2, RDS) Mike Kuhn , Editor, Down the Byline , Sporting Kansas City: Sporting KC is finally back to an MLS Cup final, after finally getting over their bogey team in Houston, Sporting face off against Real Salt Lake Saturday at Sporting Park.
  • (19) Nose Doctor: who knew kids would be attracted by bogey-related apps?
  • (20) The German's unlikely challenge, though, was to falter around the turn and formally end with a double bogey on the par three 12th.

Bogy


Definition:

  • (n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
  • (2) Furthermore, sphingosine prevents the PMA-induced increase in pHin in BoGi cells, and phosphorylation of an 80 kDa protein in 3T3 cells, but not the serum-induced alkalinization in either BoGi or 3T3 cells.
  • (3) There were pathological findings only in liver, presenting manifested parenchymatous distrophy involving hepatocytes centraly located after administration of 250 mg of basfungine per kg of bogy weight, but after administration of 125 mg per kg of body weight there was only acute venous stasis.
  • (4) In the Salt Bistro , I chat to Stefán Bogi Sveinsson who was president of the council at that time.
  • (5) He was also the bad-ass bogie-monster who presided over the Mayan’s popular ballgame, an event which more often than not culminated in a ritual human sacrifice.
  • (6) Addition of serum to BoGi cells, on top of saturating doses of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), results in a further cytoplasmic alkalinization.
  • (7) The erstwhile champion collapsed in a flurry of missed strokes and more bogies than a flu-ridden primary school assembly to throw away a chance of victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

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