How to Use boffo in a Sentence

boffo

adjective
  • Zoom flexed its muscles last week with a boffo earnings report.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 8 June 2020
  • So far, the show is getting boffo, if decidedly mixed, ratings.
    — vanityfair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
  • The central conflict here is between Nigel's desire to write what's in his heart and Nick's desire to create a boffo commercial hit.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • Yet when Iowans caucus in three weeks, her boffo performance Tuesday probably didn’t win her too many die-hard supporters.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The stock had risen nearly 300% so far this year, prior to Wednesday's release of the company's boffo financials.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2018
  • But first, the horror master has a new/old hit with It, his 31-year-old horror tale that’s scaring up fresh business in bookstores thanks to the boffo movie adaptation.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The shrine does boffo business offering charms and ceremonial purifications that protect cell phones and laptops and even blogs and ISP service from bad mojo.
    — Brian Ashcraft, WIRED, 22 June 2009
  • Sime wielded a thick black pencil that split infinitives, popularized inventive adjectives and nouns (hoofer, chantoosies, warblers, kidvid, boffo) and turned other nouns into verbs (authored, readied, helmed).
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017

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