Example sentences for: billy

How can you use “billy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Book -- Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton , by Dianne Wood Middlebrook;

  • So, for instance, Culturebox, who lives in suburban Pelham, N.Y., and works at Microsoft--where Alice McDermott's novel Charming Billy and Bill Gates' Business @ the Speed of Thought are the two top books, respectively--gets not only to spy on her neighbors and co-workers but also to find out what her fellow citizens in Anniston, Ala., and counterparts at a competing high-tech company, IBM, are reading: Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's wacked-out Christian sci-fi thriller Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed , and a boring-sounding book called The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits , respectively.

  • From the neighborhood we grew up in comes the term a Billy Groves , used to describe a glutton, in remembrance of a fat boy who could be heard squealing for a second hamburger or another scoop of ice cream on summer nights when the windows were open.

  • Only Billy has a reputation as a straight arrow.

  • In Threesome (1994), Stephen participates in a ménage à trois . (A very Baldwin coincidence: Both Stephen's Threesome and Billy's Three of Hearts [1993] are about bisexual love triangles.)


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