Booby in a sentence

Appalled at the depredations visited by feral pigs upon the island's brown booby and masked booby colonies (reduced to 500 and 150 birds, respectively), Stager procured a shotgun and killed all 58 pigs.

Species found here include: streaked shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas), brown booby (Sula leucogaster), red-footed booby (S.

A man from Oregon was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for rigging his home with lethal booby traps, Law & Crime reported Friday.

A QAnon adherent was arrested on felony charges for allegedly setting up booby traps at her home that wound up injuring a door-to-door salesman.

But the vehicles used by the IDF have a specialised military purpose: to clear away obstacles, rubble and booby traps ahead of advancing troops.

For example, the IDF released images of a child’s school bag its forces found lying in a field that was booby-trapped, containing a remote-activated explosive device—weighing 7 kg.

He had stepped on a booby trap.

In the dense warrens of Gaza, Hamas is believed to hold at least 199 people hostage, guarded by gunmen and booby traps, likely scattered and hidden from any would-be rescuers as Israel readies a ground invasion.

It is the same crack team of firearms experts who shot dead doomsday preppers Gareth Train, his wife Stacey and brother Nathaniel on December 4 after the trio fatally ambushed two officers at their booby-trapped property.

It said protesters had set “booby traps” in the forest, including trip wires and sharp nails and stakes that officers might step on, that “were designed and employed to seriously injure or kill them”.

One booby trap included a hot tub which was set to roll down a hill like the infamous boulder scene from the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie in 1981.

Rosaleen Dalton, whose father, Sean Dalton, was killed by a booby-trapped Irish Republican Army bomb at a house in Derry in 1988, said the legal challenge gives bereaved families hope.

The documents found on his computer included guides on homemade explosives, “unconventional warfare devices and techniques”, and “booby traps”.

The kitten is a folding steel hook that sappers use to dislodge booby traps, nicknamed for its retractable tongs that spring out like cat’s claws.

The Russians have also started booby-trapping trenches.

While no damage appeared to have been done, he said: "If free access is being granted to that property, people who wanted to do much more serious things would be able to leave devices or booby traps or something like that.

A Nazca booby, right, feeds its young on the cliffs of Wolf Island on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

As 1944 opened, then, the Allies were up against the formidable Gustav Line of German defence: a mass of wire entanglements, minefields, bunkers and booby traps, woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy.

Even if hostilities were occurring between Israel and Lebanon, as might well happen, Israel would have no right to use booby traps.

Freshour had taken the day off from work the same day the booby trap was found.