bogie

Example Sentences

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“Our bogie is forty-five per cent,” Sloan told a reporter, in 1938.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2019

We expect valuation to be compressed by the double bogie of falling eps and a declining multiple.

From Forbes • Jun. 6, 2014

Scoring is a Sisyphean task that involves compulsive checking of the PGA Tour’s computerized scoring system and a lot of guessing about who might birdie or bogie a hole.

From Forbes • Aug. 1, 2012

What with news from Pennsylvania that Secretary Mellon had ordered an uninstructed delegation, the Hoover boom last week seemed overshadowed by a bogie named Illinois-Massachusetts-New York-Pennsylvania.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had a second-class sleeper in the seventh bogie, behind the air-conditioned coach.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri