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Example sentences for "bossing"

Lexicographically close words:
bosoms; bosques; boss; bossed; bosses; bossy; bost; bosun; bot; bota
  1. The sort of bossing that she received that day was too delicious for words.

  2. But you have had your turn of bossing people and managing things.

  3. Raymond is bossing the supper for them from the club, and all that.

  4. Say, if she keeps bossing and bossing at you, what do you keep on living with her for?

  5. Kedzie had to satisfy her plutocratic pride by bossing the waiter about, by complaining that the oysters were not chilled and the sherry was.

  6. Jim could endure neither bossing nor being bossed; restraint of any sort irked him.

  7. Well," I says, "I suppose you'll be bossing that bar in Capetown now before long?

  8. He found Bob Hart, in oilskins and rubber boots, bossing a gang of scrapers, giving directions to a second one building a dam across a draw, and supervising a third group engaged in siphoning crude oil from one sump to another.

  9. Won't keep me from swinging a sack and bossing a gang.

  10. Bossing up: Beating out sheet metal in the back into rough forms required.

  11. Bossing up: Place the disc while cold on the hollow wood block and drive down from the under side with the hammer, bending in the inside.

  12. Sand bag: A flat circular or square bag of leather filled with sand used for bossing up metal upon.

  13. Snarling iron: Long Z-shaped bar of iron fixed in a vise and used for bossing out the surface of vessels from the inside.

  14. I've been bossing Greasers and Italians and was forced to learn their language to get results, and now I want to speak my mother tongue to my old friends.

  15. I've heard him bossing a gang of miners too often not to recognize that note of command.

  16. May I inquire if you are bossing the job as usual?

  17. Oh, no, there's no bossing going on to-day.

  18. She will be 'bossing the job,' as she says.

  19. Besides, it was a 'breach' for him to start bossing about when there were two of his elders in the house.

  20. He liked bossing it in the darkness, and so do you.

  21. After all, there were things in the world other than engines and boilers and steel tracks; there were plenty of uses for him besides calculating and experimenting and bossing a lot of filthy men.

  22. You can imagine how excited we all were, and how I looked forward to seeing old Gerald bossing round in his General's uniform.

  23. I'd found some ammunition for that revolver, and had loaded it, but my face and yellowish hair was all that was wanted to make any one obey me, and I rode along on my tired little horse, absolutely bossing the show.

  24. My chum with the gilt spurs and enormous sabre seemed to be bossing the show, and was too busy trying to get the men into something like order to notice me.

  25. They all suffer from bossing fever and can't live unless they're running something.

  26. Symmetrical bossing of the skull was present in the case shown in Figs.

  27. Bossing of the skull resulting in the formation of Parrot's nodes is also being withdrawn from the category of syphilitic affections.

  28. We'd just been married, and I was spending my days bossing the sole leather room in Clough & Spinney's, and my nights in trying to figure how the fellow who said two can live as cheaply as one got his answer.

  29. Charlie was no loafer, and I felt sure he was working hard each day, but he had no more success in persuading buyers to stock "The Heart of the Hide" line than old King Canute had in bossing the sea around.

  30. As for bossing the ranch," she went on, her voice suddenly one of cold mockery, "what is there to boss?

  31. She expected he would find her nagging and bossing intolerable, that he would leave in a rage and allow her and Taggart to come into possession of the property.

  32. Somebody else will do the bossing in this instance and we shall be the victims.

  33. Are we going to do any bossing when we get on the lakes?

  34. When it comes to bossing the Senator and making love to you, too, he's getting too strong.

  35. Raising cotton, arguing the Government and bossing niggers have been about the extent of my occupation for the last forty years, so I reckon I'm not much of a practical lawmaker.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bossing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    auspices; care; charge; eye; jurisdiction; oversight; responsibility; supervision; surveillance