How to Use bozo in a Sentence

bozo

noun
  • Some bozo forgot to shut the door.
  • Who should be telling these bozos to get their facts straight?
    — Dayna Evans, The Cut, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The red flag should be used for these bozos who proposed this.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Only a bozo would announce that kind of layoff, though.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
  • No matter what’s going on with you, there’s always some bozo.
    — Lena Dunham, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Which is lame, because parting ways with a close friend hurts way worse than splitting from some bozo.
    — Seventeen, 16 May 2017
  • Should any of these bozos who have been fired still have their security clearances?
    — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018
  • Zimmer is an effete, hapless bozo, which lets Mr Carell put pathos and need front and centre.
    — The Economist, 25 June 2020
  • Dick just found joy 15 seconds ago — a sip of joy before these bozos came into the Black Spot.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The rest of the Pac-12 inherited the bozo and had to live with Scott’s tired act just like the rest of us.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The more likely reaction is to dismiss those who challenge their right to exist as uninformed bozos.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
  • This is a tiny example of the uncertainty sown by the bozos running the country and reporting the news.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Everyone, including the podcast bozos who busted their way onto the guest list, is well behaved.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The series abounds with pairs of hapless bozos whose comedic value is underlined by their alliterative names.
    — Alice Bolin, Longreads, 26 June 2018
  • This isn’t time for blind optimism, political nonsense or bozo cowboys like Gundy.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The mayor thanked the bozo for his public testimony before pivoting to items on the council agenda.
    — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Their two children come in to find both parents on the floor, their mother weeping, their father’s head bloodied, three unshaven red-eyed bozos looming over them, their guns out.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • That Cohen is the bozo in this little dunk-tank exercise is an occasion for unmistakable schadenfreude.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
  • When two unqualified bozos are hired to transfer a rich teen to rehab, their straightforward gig quickly spirals into dangerous mayhem.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The audience sat in near-total silence — beyond the occasional bozo yelling Vernon’s name — during it all, a rarity for a crowd of this size.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The 11-year-old said the clown tried to grab and chase after him — but the boy fought off the big ring bozo with a metal selfie stick, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
    — Caitlin Doornbos, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The evening also includes broomstick limbo, bobbing for apples, making s'mores around the fire pit, spooky bozo buckets, Halloween movies and plenty of other surprises.
    — Daily Southtown, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Macon Blair wrote and will direct the road movie that follows a pair of deeply unqualified bozos, played by Wilson and Ron Funches, who've been hired to transport a troubled teenage millionaire to rehab.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018

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