How do you use Boondoggles in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Boondoggles meaning
plural of boondoggle
Using Boondoggles
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of boondoggle
- In the example corpus, boondoggles often appears in combinations such as: climate boondoggles.
Context around Boondoggles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Boondoggles
- In this selection, "boondoggles" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, climate, stranger and spectacular stand out and add context to how "boondoggles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all budgetary boondoggles and cities stranger boondoggles in urban. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "boondoggles" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with boondoggles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Better use of our money, no more boondoggles, no more patronage, no more secret deals, no more giveaways. (18 words)
Mike Mullen for City PagesOne of the Twin Cities’ stranger boondoggles in urban planning might soon come to an end. (20 words)
He was not popular with a lot of department heads, because he could quickly sniff out any and all budgetary boondoggles. (21 words)
Joe Biden has been the engineer of that train, larding up the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act with big-time government spending on climate boondoggles. (34 words)
Griggs talked a solid majority of the City Council into asking the goofy Park Cities socialite set to pay back city taxpayers for one of their more spectacular boondoggles. (29 words)
The best thing we can do for the next generation is to stop spending their money on climate boondoggles and put it back into their college funds. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
Joe Biden has been the engineer of that train, larding up the American Rescue Plan, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act with big-time government spending on climate boondoggles.
Mike Mullen for City PagesOne of the Twin Cities’ stranger boondoggles in urban planning might soon come to an end.
Better use of our money, no more boondoggles, no more patronage, no more secret deals, no more giveaways.
Griggs talked a solid majority of the City Council into asking the goofy Park Cities socialite set to pay back city taxpayers for one of their more spectacular boondoggles.
The best thing we can do for the next generation is to stop spending their money on climate boondoggles and put it back into their college funds.
He was not popular with a lot of department heads, because he could quickly sniff out any and all budgetary boondoggles.
Common combinations with boondoggles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: