How to Use boss in a Sentence

boss

1 of 2 noun
  • But her boss took a stab at it.
    — The Detroit News Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That doesn’t sit well with the boss.
    — Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • But the boss doesn’t see it the same way.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Your glow-up starts now, so act like a boss!
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
  • To have a boss tell you where to go or what to do next.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • So the boss has done pretty well.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • Disney will soon have a new boss.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Hunter is the boss of our routine.
    — Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And running triage like a boss.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And the desire to be your own boss.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The boss is sitting right there.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Younger urged his bosses to draft him.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Who wants to get the boss in trouble?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Their bosses found out in stages.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • All of that is tested in a huge boss fight.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That could mean training the boss.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That could mean being the boss.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Monroe went to work with his boss the next day.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Carter will face the same headwinds as her boss.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Who will be state workers’ next boss?
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That’s a question for them, boss.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
  • Alonso wasn’t a touchy-feely boss.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And the boss isn’t going to check your work.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Who's kind of the boss who has the side alliance.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • What’s on your wrist today, boss?
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The swinger of the radio, the boss with the hot sauce!
    — Justin Adams, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Bigtree, for one, thinks his former boss shares his views.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • She was asked to see her boss at the station when she was done.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Has its boss lost his job for what seems to be a massive screwup?
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The goal must be to just make the boss happy in the short term.
    — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026

boss

2 of 2 verb
  • April is a fiery month that offers us a chance to boss up and change our lives for the better.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Pop trends For the last several years, girls bossed the pop charts.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
  • He is getting bossed around by grandma throughout the entire movie.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
  • No harm, no foul — as long as the commission bosses back the changes, Zelden said.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Many employees are berated, yelled at, or bossed around daily.
    — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Maybe being able to boss around Kerry, who is still technically the help, is enough?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Further, their defense has bossed the Clippers in two head-to-head meetings this season.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Any area of life is worth focusing on depending on your birth chart — but this transit makes people want to boss up and be in love.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • The 26-year-old rapper showed fans how to boss up their lives by performing two of his most popular records.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The recipients of the emails felt confused, bossed around and uninvolved.
    — Janine Schindler, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Though Mayweather bossed the bout while appearing to go half-speed, no winner was declared.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Toddlers are bossed around all day long, often with little understanding and even less say in their daily schedule.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But what's really fascinating about peptides is their ability to boss your skin around.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Vera, sensing both a mystery and another hapless young person who needs her cooking and bossing, goes on the alert.
    — Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • England was bossing the game up front at 27-17 until Genge was sin-binned and France pounced.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That informal title comes with a lot of negative baggage, like being bossy and bossing people around.
    — John Hall, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Tell him to leave you alone and only interact for professional reason that doesn't include bossing you around.
    — Karen Fratti, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • That partnership, fed by long balls, totally bossed the City defence for long periods of the second half.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The discussion was essentially one of two Black bosses bossing up.
    — Felice León, Essence, 18 July 2023
  • That evening, Ellie once again bosses Bri and Carrie around in the name of decorating.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Getting extra bodies into central areas enabled City to boss the midfield.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Both already full internationals, the Cameroonian and the Swede bossed it in the middle.
    — Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Be ready to boss up and take dominion of situations that are seemingly out of your control (but won’t be for long) to help attain a sense of security.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Among the many lessons to draw from the Biden administration’s depositor bailouts of two failing banks is that too many Democrats let the banks boss them around.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Leeds United had bossed the first half and David Moyes felt there was little alternative but to copy Daniel Farke.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But as Erika’s mealy lover, Hoffman gets bossed around and humiliated and mostly digs his kinky misadventure.
    — Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Sun Ra was simultaneously impish and imperious, bossing us with wiggles of his hands.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Saliba and Gabriel would have still likely bossed Nmecha in that scenario, but Piroe was helpless as possession was ceded over his head time after time.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Indeed, one reason that older sisters feel so comfortable bossing younger ones around and giving them advice is precisely because there is a strong connection between them.
    — Deborah Tannen, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2016
  • No leader can unilaterally impose his or her will on the American public the way a patriarch can boss around employees at a family company.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026

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