(n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
(n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(2) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
(4) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
(7) Paul Dryhurst, a relative, said she had been in the arena with her sister Claire Booth, 34 and Claire’s daughter Hollie, 11.
(8) John Londesborough Helsinki, Finland • We Finns are delighted to learn that Michael Booth is fond of us and would like us to rule the world.
(9) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
(10) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(11) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
(12) Cherie Blair's sister Lauren Booth has a weekly programme, Remember the Children of Palestine.
(13) 2.46pm: Among the piles of new handsets littering the show booths of Barcelona, this new handset from Sagem caught our eye.
(14) Katharina Booth, chief of the sexual assault unit in the Boulder County district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the Wilkerson case, said she’s concerned about the “chilling effect” of the light sentences.
(15) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(16) But recognition is the key when people enter the voting booth.
(17) But here he is, arranged in a booth, a glass of Belgian beer before him.
(18) It also has “press for champagne” buttons in each booth – lethal when you’ve already had one too many.
(19) The musculoskeletal complaints are likely the result of bending, reaching, and leaning out of the toll booth.
(20) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
Booty
Definition:
(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The woman across the street from me bought an entire Burberry outfit for her dog, from coat to booties to hat.
(2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(3) The pay-per-view take-up is also expected to delight the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and the TV cheque-signers, Showtime, when they sit down to count the booty.
(4) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
(5) But what if “booty” were a metaphor for the free ownership of handguns?
(6) Whatever it takes – hints of preferment or threats – they may lose their booty.
(7) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.
(8) Business owners who spoke on condition of anonymity accused officers of treating the city as booty.
(9) I designed most of the dress, the booties and the hat.
(10) It seems only right that some of the trust fund to be established from Habré’s stolen booty, together with other contributions, should be spent on providing survivors with the clinical and mental health services provided by Freedom from Torture, to help heal their wounds.
(11) Instead, she found Kat waiting at the prison gates, Roxy shacked up with Alfie, and Booty's replaced with Beauty's.
(12) It seems that Senicianus only got as far as Silchester before he lost his booty.
(13) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
(14) The company, which is known for its trademark trenchcoats but also sells £14,000 alligator bowling bags and £95 babies’ booties, warned that sales growth is slowing in Asia with are “pockets of weakness in Europe”.
(15) The suspicion is that at least some of Morgan's booty winds up 280 miles south-west of Epulu, in the hands of the Congolese army.
(16) This autumn is full of booty songs – yours, Nikki Minaj’s Anaconda and Jennifer Lopez’s Booty.
(17) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
(18) Jonathan Jones has rightly argued that British museums must “face up to reality” and that “cultural imperialism” belongs in history’s dustbin, but clearly his passionate plea fell on deaf ears ( The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back , 4 November).
(19) Win it and this Arsenal team will at last graduate from pretenders to victors, cast off the reputation as bottlers and seem well primed to use their post-Emirates-building booty money to add judicious reinforcements and embark on a new period of glory for the Gunners and ultimate vindication for Wenger.
(20) Your job is to loot galactic booty (so to speak) in your spaceship, crafting weapons and upgrades to keep your fleet in shape, and plotting your space-battle strategy.