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

Manchester City’s League Cup triumph means the division’s sixth-placed finishers are likely to qualify for the continent’s booby prize that is the Europa League.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2016

"Everybody says you're going to give solid gold prizes and that even your booby prize will be handsomer than the first prize was at Mrs. Detwiller's."

From Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Hughes, Rupert