How to Use booger in a Sentence

booger

noun
  • You guys, mucus—snot, boogers, slime, nose goblins, phlegm—is the best.
    Sarah Fallon, WIRED, 28 July 2016
  • This kind of waxy ear booger has plagued people for centuries.
    Henry Ou, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Pretty sure there’s a booger in my iPhone 11’s charging port.
    Joanna Stern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Use goggles and a mask while sanding or expect pink boogers and tears.
    Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Chelsea Hirschhorn Created in: 2014 What’s the most effective way to get rid of your child’s boogers? Sucking them out.
    Kate Tully Ellsworth, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Many people do it to remove the dry nasal mucus, namely boogers, that can build up and irritate the nose.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2023
  • From a booger buster to a videophone, these gifts make this amazing job just a little easier.
    Adrienne So, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Welcome to planet Earth, where everyone has some eye boogers in the morning.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 7 June 2018
  • And as any pet parent can tell you, the only thing worse than seeing these eye boogers is having to pick them out with your fingers.
    Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 14 May 2020
  • Pricing books, cleaning people’s boogers off of books, shelving books.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The second camp offers children ages 6-10 the opportunity to explore the world of Ooey Gooey Science with an in-depth look at boogers, barf and slime.
    Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 28 May 2018
  • To stop booger flicking, concentrate on pulling the trigger back and holding it fully back after the firing pin falls.
    Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Boogers or avocado mashed into your shins by a wily toddler?
    Jen Gann, The Cut, 21 June 2017
  • If your reality of #iwokeuplike this includes eye boogers, don’t feel bad.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Jan. 2018
  • New bat-handling protocols suggest using an air-puffing tool like one of those baby-booger nasal aspirators to puff air on a bat instead.
    Malia Wollan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • No, Boogie Bites are not made of real boogers.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That includes the strange tool used to suction boogers and the importance of tilting the bottle all the way to get all the bubbles out, or else.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 7 Aug. 2025

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