Example sentences for: bugger

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

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • In 1967, bugger was permitted in Up the Junction . In the early 1970s, certification of the films of Andy Warhol introduced a truly comprehensive vocabulary.

  • ‘Direct payment, very boldly speaking, is paying people in rural areas not to bugger up their environment,’ says du Toit.

  • There are terms from general English: make a balls of `muck up, bugger up,' bang `intercourse,' outsider `horse (dog) starting at long odds.

  • Whenever Iraq claimed (quite rightly) that arms inspections were a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, we could and should have responded, "Bugger your sovereignty--this is war."


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