Sample Sentences for
boon
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  • My lady, I beg the boon of championing your cause.  (source)
    boon = favor
  • Then without saying a word, he rose from his chair, exited the office, and embraced this boon companion whom he had not seen in eight long years.  (source)
    boon = cherished
  • Somehow toys scattered throughout the house and toilets that the little ones had forgotten to flush are not considered a marketing boon.  (source)
    boon = thing of great benefit
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  • But if the telephone was a boon, it was also a fresh risk—as was each added worker and connection.†  (source)
  • Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia.†  (source)
  • Only the greatest hero could ask such a boon, Mars said.†  (source)
  • "As to that, your majesty," said Deirdre, "we expect no boons, but will take care of it ourselves upon our departure."†  (source)
  • She told him of a young woman who had been granted a boon.†  (source)
  • Some of the freedmen greeted her as "Mother," while others begged for boons or favors.†  (source)
  • They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer.†  (source)
  • We badgers thought very hard and decided to ask three boons.†  (source)
  • One day you my ace boon and the next day I don't know you.†  (source)
  • How, then, do you intend to earn these boons?†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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  • Even though Shirley Boon, with her big know-it-all smile, kind a irritate me.  (source)
    Boon = a name in this novel
  • Tonight, Shirley Boon's sitting down and the Deacon standing at the front.  (source)
  • AT SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICE, Shirley Boon gets up in front of the congregation.  (source)
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  • Now that I can't come to the Shirley Boon meetings anymore, that's pretty much all I've got.  (source)
    Boon = a name in this novel
  • And I know there are plenty of other "colored" things I could do besides telling my stories or going to Shirley Boon's meetings—the mass meetings in town, the marches in Birmingham, the voting rallies upstate.  (source)
  • "Shirley Boon," I say.  (source)
  • I told Shirley Boon her ass won't fit on no stool at Woolworth's anyway.  (source)
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