Example sentences for: bossy

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

  • Prudie does not like to be bossy, but she strongly suggests you do the following, since she divines you are not going to change your shoes.

  • The South China Morning Post talked of "unprecedented diplomatic pressure" being imposed on the increasingly insecure President Suharto of Indonesia, who, it said, was awaiting further frantic, bossy telephone calls (following those he had already received from President Clinton and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia) from Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

  • A bossy woman was the old ballyo (bell ewe?), and of a person who put on airs, it was said, She's got a b-i-g place .

  • Then, too, the outré behavior you describe was taking place at your house, allowing you to feel (rightly, Prudie thinks) that l'état, c'est moo . ("I'm bossy around here."


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