How to Use bookie in a Sentence

bookie

noun
  • Their bookie is giving good odds.
  • The bookies came up empty there, too.
    — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The bookies' thought so, the fans thought so and so did the experts.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 11 June 2019
  • So why bet with a bookie when there are so many legal options?
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Bets between friends are fine; taking bets like a bookie is not.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Those bookies that ran those casinos and booked those casinos.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • At the moment, he's placed third-last by the bookies, with his odds at $6.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • This forced gamblers to either bet with a bookie or an offshore site.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Rose had to commit a crime to gamble, seeking out bookies to make his bets.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Are bookies bound to become extinct, not just in real life, but on the show as well?
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2024
  • In the past, would-be bettors had to go to a casino or racetrack, or find a bookie.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The mob demanded street taxes from bookies, and those who didn’t pay could wind up dead.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
  • Loreen’s anthem of intense love had been the bookies’ favorite.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • As each one does, bookies will go the way of the typewriter in the computer era.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
  • Most people will place their bets online or in-person as opposed to with a bookie.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Pughsley learned right away that the bookie had been arrested on a drug charge.
    — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • Life has a way of getting in the way of, if not dictating, a bookie’s business.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • Las Vegas is betting against them and the bookies are hardly alone.
    — Tom Withers, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • Such risks are why some local bookies have survived the rise of online sportsbooks.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • Wilson recalled that some of the bookies became customers at the bar.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The guard at the Paddock opened the gate to admit me, but two overzealous bookies rushed us.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
  • And betting is no longer just a casino bookie set up in Las Vegas.
    — Rivan Stinson, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Burdette was playing golf with a couple of other bookies when the website went dark.
    — Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • And the old-time bookie is not dead yet; 13 percent will bet with one, the trade group estimates.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Over the weekend, London bookies put the odds of their getting married this year at five-four.
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Finland’s song, the bookies’ favorite, is one of several angsty entries this year.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
  • Once the kinks are worked out, Vic and Robins agreed, back-alley bookies will largely wither and die.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 14 May 2018
  • The grandstands at the turn of the century were filled with gamblers and bookies placing bets on every play of the game.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The bookies on Fremont Street are busy counting chickens.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
  • By then Bowyer had dropped all pretense of presenting himself as anything but a bookie.
    — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025

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