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Sentence Examples
| The down-to-earth boffin has been kicking up a stink about excrement studies and grubbing around in old filth for more than 30 years. |
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| A boffin has invented a car that runs on grass, or pigeon poo, or privet cuttings. |
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| Fertility expert Professor Winston shot to fame as a TV boffin after presenting a string of award-winning BBC science programmes. |
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| Moves are steaming ahead to honour an Atherton-born boffin whose vision of a high speed hovertrain was dismissed. |
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| His election reminds me of one of those 1950s science fiction movies in which a mad boffin throws a lever and the poles are reversed. |
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| So what is a computer boffin doing teaching a physical education class? |
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| He does not look like a computer boffin, nor does he speak in the manner of a tortured ideologue. |
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| It is not just that a Chinese boffin in Beijing reads papers written by Chinese boffins in America. |
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| Sometimes, it is simply about boldly going where no boffin had gone before. |
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| Tolkien was a professor of Middle English and a language boffin. |
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| And even the most wizardly boffin is not going to change those with a wave of his magic wand. |
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| As a small business owner, you are not only the head honcho, but also the bean counter, chief salesman, IT boffin, tax specialist and marketing guru too. |
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| Mr Newey was the brilliant boffin behind a long succession of wins by the Williams team in the early 1990s, but had not recently won with McLaren. |
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| The 44-year-old boffin, an inorganic chemist originally from Newry, Co Down, has been named as one of the 50 leading young scientists in Europe. |
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| Bagless vacuum cleaner boffin Sir James Dyson yesterday pledged to spend PS1billion on a wave of new products. |
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| Here, the man who played nerdy boffin Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd, uses his love of technology to get the most out of his annual leave. |
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| Soccer boffin Kevin Pullein with his weekly dose of betting wisdom THIS afternoon in the last playoff final Norwich or Middlesbrough will win promotion to the Premier League. |
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| But what would happen if a huge, eggheaded boffin in a white coat and spectacles, to whom you had not even been introduced, insisted on immersing you in a hot bath. |
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| Which TV boffin is turning question-master to host a BBC2 quiz show? |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Then they played other games, in which boffin joined, and also Marjorie's kitten, Puff. |
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| Rosy Posy was too little to have a special chum, so boffin was her companion. |
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| Mr. boffin in all his parliamentary experience had known nothing like it. |
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| Baby Rosamond bundled out backward, dropping boffin as she did so. |
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| Then Mr. boffin took away Mrs. boffin, much to that lady's regret. |
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| After that Mr. boffin admitted Sir Orlando back into his heart of hearts. |
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| The tough job being ended and the Mounds laid low, the hour is come for Boffin to stump up. |
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| They rouse my indignation, my dear, against the unworthy persons, and give me a combative desire to stand between Mr Boffin and all such persons. |
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| Mrs. Boffin, wife of Mr. N. Boffin, and daughter of a cat's-meatman. |
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| Sophronia, darling, Mr and Mrs Boffin will remind you of the old adage, that self-praise is no recommendation. |
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| I haven't been not to say right slap through him, very lately,' Mr Wegg made answer, 'having been otherways employed, Mr Boffin. |
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| True, to the present time,' Mr Boffin assented, with his former pensiveness, as he took his seat upon his settle. |
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| Mr Boffin took his nose in his hand, as if it were already excoriated, and the sparks were beginning to fly out of that feature. |
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| While delivering these valedictory observations, Wegg continually disappointed Mr Boffin of his hand by flourishing it in the air. |
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| Mr Boffin has merely to add, that he relies on Mr John Rokesmith's assurance that he will be faithful and serviceable. |
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| In all the first bewilderment of her wonder, the most bewilderingly wonderful thing to Bella was the shining countenance of Mr Boffin. |
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| When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. |
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| So I call upon Boffin, before I say another word, to fetch him in and send him packing to the right-about. |
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| Mr Boffin stared here, and stared there, as misdoubting that he must be in some sort of fit. |
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| Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion. |
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| As Mrs Boffin and Miss Wilfer drive out, or as Mr Boffin walks out at his jog-trot pace, the fishmonger pulls off his hat with an air of reverence founded on conviction. |
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| He had been constrained to depute Mr Venus to keep their dusty friend, Boffin, under inspection, while he himself turned lank and lean at the Bower. |
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| Mr Boffin added as he turned his pensive steps towards the Bower and shook his head, 'I didn't think this morning there was half so many Scarers in Print. |
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