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Example sentences for "bosses"

Lexicographically close words:
bosomes; bosoms; bosques; boss; bossed; bossing; bossy; bost; bosun; bot
  1. Why, man, if the workingmen only knew it, they are ten times worse slaves to the union bosses than ever they were to corporations.

  2. It means a gain of two bits a day to each man; it means loss and inconvenience to the companies, and it means a big pile of money in the pockets of the bosses who are running the thing.

  3. Many times did I speak them aloud, then I pressed the bosses on the table, as shown by one of the books.

  4. I took my hands from the bosses and stood, wondering what would happen.

  5. At any rate, here was the pool, clear and unruffled; new grass was springing on its banks, and here and there woolly brown bosses showed where ferns were sprouting.

  6. The feed of the bosses won't cost us a cent," remarked young Sanford.

  7. Such granite intrusions are generally known as bosses from their rounded surfaces, and the frequency with which they form flattish dome-shaped hills, rising above the older rocks surrounding them.

  8. Those who support this theory leave the question of the ultimate source of the granite unanswered, but consider that it is of deep-seated origin, and the bosses which now appear at the surface are only comparatively superficial manifestations.

  9. They doubtless represent the bosses on a shield.

  10. The bosses might be a little afraid of you.

  11. These bosses and the stones from which they were suspended, have altogether disappeared, otherwise the internal tracery of the window is in good preservation.

  12. Her report was likewise picked up by the Bosses of the various Gang units in our line, and we had called a council to discuss our plans by word of mouth.

  13. She overheard enough of the conversation of their Bosses around the camp fire beneath her to indicate the general nature of the Han plans.

  14. On the strength of this, a general council of Gang Bosses was called.

  15. I asked the little group of Wyoming Bosses who had assembled in Wilma's tent to greet me.

  16. Many of the Gang Bosses were dubious about our Wyoming policy of providing our fighters with no inertron armor as protection against the disintegrator ray of the Hans.

  17. Girdles and girdle-buckles are not often found in Gallo-Roman graves, but in the graves of Franks and Burgundians they are constantly present, often ornamented with bosses of silver or bronze, chased or inlaid.

  18. The sculpture of the capitals of the columns and bosses of the groined vaulting is exquisite and the whole is in excellent preservation.

  19. They were now enabled to perceive that the original bosses had been fitted to a new cylinder.

  20. After a considerable amount of persuasive force of handling, one of the bosses yielded a hair's-breadth.

  21. That which belonged to the Prefect was very perceptibly thicker; but, as the bosses affixed to the ends remained the same size, it followed, that the margin of the projection was less in the Prefect's than his own.

  22. The Greek took the suspected cylinder into his long supple fingers, and made a very minute scrutiny of the junction of the bosses at either end.

  23. Above is the fine vaulted roof, the elaborately carved bosses giving a series of scenes from sacred history extending from the Creation to the Last Judgment.

  24. The bosses of the roof, which presents an unbroken line, are seventy feet above the floor.

  25. I had heard the road-men many times tell the bosses to 'wake up,' but I did not believe the salesmen.

  26. I had not stopped to figure out how my bosses could stay under their own roof all the time and know so much about other houses' goods and be absolutely sure that their own line was bound to be the best ever.

  27. I had heard the bosses talk a whole year about how cheaply they sold their goods.

  28. Such men as bosses in industry are often the cause of serious labor troubles, and are always the cause of reduced production.

  29. The bosses in vaulted ceilings are frequently called keys.

  30. Thorn, Bude] But among the features of this sanctuary none exceed in singular and eloquent symbolism the bosses of the chancel roof.

  31. The framework of these bosses is a cornice of vines.

  32. There is a copy of a French poem in her praise in the public library at Oxford: its pages are full of exquisite portraits and designs, and on the sides there are 'brilliant bosses composed of humming-birds' feathers.

  33. The bibliophile goes book in hand, like the statue of Bellerophon with the letter, but he only cares for the choice vellum and bosses of gold.

  34. One hundred and eighty pesos and three hundred and sixty-five gantas of cleaned rice are saved on the two bosses 180 p.

  35. The other two sub-bosses of the Lascars shall receive one hundred and twenty pesos per year, and fifteen gantas of cleaned rice per month.

  36. Two other bosses of the Lascars received one hundred and twenty pesos per year and thirty gantas of cleaned rice.

  37. The Bosses were punished for defying the will of the voters and a useful lesson in politics was administered.

  38. Officeholders, Presidents and Governors, come and go, but the Bosses hold their power for a long time.

  39. Under this boss system, no matter which party wins, the people seldom win; but the bosses almost always win.

  40. At the present moment notorious bosses are in the saddle of both old parties in various important States which must be carried to elect a President.

  41. Democratic and Republican bosses alike are brother officers of this hidden power.

  42. The bosses and lobbyists that grew rich by putting them through never will forget them.

  43. Five years ago, when the fight for this great business measure was begun in the Senate the bosses of both parties were against it.

  44. Neither of the old parties' nominees for President can escape obligation to these old-party bosses or shake their practical hold on many and powerful members of the National Legislature.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.