Sentence examples for busted as from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mirchandani said smoke-friendly establishments like his "haven't been busted as much as they used to be busted".

This year's tournament is full of good stories, but my bracket is busted, as are many in the office pool here at The New Yorker.

While many empires have been won and lost in New York, rarely has one man boomed and busted as fast as Mr. Hochfelder did.

"They knew they were busted as soon as I caught them, red-handed at that!" says the children's mom, Mackenzie Tims.

And so budgets were busted as spending soared.

It wasn't until I tried to board the ferry that I was busted as an imposter.

With everyone likely to bust as gut to get to the front and nowhere near enough room for all of them, the potential for carnage is massive.

He had orchestrated another huge shark-fin bust — as much as three tons, he speculated, in three hiding places.

No other country aside from Iceland suffered a banking bust as severe as Ireland's during the financial crisis.

The "this time is different" mistake applies to busts as well as booms: when things get dark enough, people start believing that dawn will never come.

Then I started putting four-letter root vegetables in squares, like T-A-R-O and the like, but that was a bust as well.