Sentence examples for bookie by from inspiring English sources

R. 'Alex and Emma' In not the likeliest of scenarios, a writer with no money and a gambling problem promises he will pay off a bookie by finishing a novel in 30 days.

Because of the cut taken by the bookies, by the time later races are run most racegoers have lost some money.

More than six hundred people showed up — and that was before the U.S. men's team had bankrupted Canadian and Swedish bookies by winning the gold.

This hat claims to be pistachio (apparently the Queen "stitched up" the bookies by wearing the hue) but the coat is true turquoise – the kind of colour you only get on sweets that turn your tongue blue.

Anyway, Willis shouts at Hall for a while, then she moves to New York where she shouts at a bookie played by Vince Vaughn.

In The Front (1976), released roughly a quarter of a century after Ritt's blacklisting, Woody Allen gave a much-praised performance as a part-time bookie hired by a group of blacklisted television writers to affix his name to their work so it could be sold.

It's a numbers game made tricky by the fact that the bookie is blinded by parental love.

Paris is the bookies' favourite by some distance.