booby prize

Example Sentences

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I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize.

From Salon • May 6, 2023

I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Any other week, “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” would have locked up Broadway’s booby prize, but it looks positively adequate by comparison with “Pretty Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 17, 2018

They've looked committed thus far in pursuit of what might be considered a booby prize, but Portugal's Benfica have pedigree of their own and looked impressive in dispatching Fenerbahçe in the semi-final.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2013

They all laughed at this hit, for the doctor's daughter was not much of a pastry cook and her lemon pie had been voted the booby prize at luncheon.

From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Morrison, Gertrude W.