Example sentences for: boondoggle

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

  • On October 5, 1978, the House voted on whether to override President Carter's veto of a water projects appropriation bill, which included funding for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (another famous boondoggle of that era).

  • Dole has done explicit and valuable favors for both companies, sponsoring the notorious ethanol boondoggle for ADM, and helping the Gallos (who have given various Dole organizations more than $1 million since 1986) with family-specific tax breaks and regulatory fixes.

  • The others--Hatch, Bauer, Bush, Forbes, and Keyes--were quick to protest their fervent support for this boondoggle, which violates every known conservative principle but draws cheers in the corn belt.

  • Add to that Alaska's strategic position in a world where the threat comes increasingly from Asia, and you can see that the money spent here on the military is hardly a boondoggle dreamed up by the locals.

  • Inspired as these follies are, they pale before the state's most expensive boondoggle (and history's biggest bond default): the $26 billion WPPSS (Washington Public Power Supply System) cash-toss.


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