Sentence examples for booby hatch from inspiring English sources
noun
Alternative form of booby-hatch
If I could just channel that guy, I'd be ready for the booby hatch!
That old truism about this being the activity prescribed to inmates of the booby hatch seems appropriate.
He recalled some of them: Old Whitey Simon, who's in a booby hatch somewhere in N. H John Peter Apostle - was in jail the last he heard.
He told his wife about this and she said he was a booby and she was going to have him put in the booby hatch as the unicorn was a mythical beast.
Friern – commonly known as Colney Hatch, hence "booby hatch" – was originally one of the great and gothic asylums of the Victorian age, originally designed as a self-supporting community, with its own farm, gas works, water supply and artisan workshops.
He tells the man in the office that this man, his brother, is a shiftless, drunken bum who has just escaped from a Boston booby hatch and finds himself in desperate need of treatment in the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Unit.
In January 2005, we placed distinctive blue plastic bands on all adult nonbreeders and failed breeders that had known nestling histories (age, clutch size, hatching order and siblicidal/non-siblicidal) in the "study area", a subsection of the Nazca booby colony at Punta Cevallos [28].
We compare hatchling androgen levels in the two species to ask whether Nazca boobies hatch with higher concentrations of androgens than do blue-footed boobies.
We show that obligately siblicidal Nazca boobies hatch with higher circulating androgen levels than do facultatively siblicidal blue-footed boobies, providing comparative evidence of the role of androgens in sociality.
We test two hypotheses: that Nazca boobies hatch with higher baseline androgen levels than do blue-footed boobies, in parallel with the contrast in lethal fighting among hatchlings; and that participation in the different neonatal social systems induces persistent developmental consequences for behavior.
Hannah Verdier As if there wasn't enough going on in this spooky booby-hatch, they go and drag the Holocaust into it.
