booby prize

Example Sentences

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I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize.

From Salon • May 6, 2023

I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Any other week, “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” would have locked up Broadway’s booby prize, but it looks positively adequate by comparison with “Pretty Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 17, 2018

When she was tapped in 2011 to lead the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee for the 2012 cycle, it was widely viewed as a booby prize, the leadership job nobody wanted.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2013

If you are the beauty of this college, I run a close race for the booby prize!

From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.