booting

present participle of boot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of booting An incredible series of plays, a last-gasp effort, and the fortuitous foot of Matt Prater, the field goal kicker who’d been in Buffalo no more than 100 hours, booting a 32-yarder for the win. Coy Wire, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 Perez retaliated by stripping Caruso of his committee chairmanship and booting him out of his corner office into another space. Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025 Romo had the more impressive make, booting one through from 57 yards. Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for booting
Verb
  • Then, after starting the second half by fumbling the ball away at the Rebels’ 17, the Cougars’ next two drives ended in two more Belinske-Strauss touchdown runs – the second of which came on a possession that started at the Champlin Park 1 after a high snap on a Rebels’ punt attempt.
    Frank Rajkowski, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Boise State played an uneven first half in Tampa, fumbling twice and committing a huge penalty that gave life to a South Florida touchdown drive.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As health restrictions discouraged people from blowing directly into instruments, Gajewski and Brown reimagined the design.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Soldiers have also been spotted in parks carrying out tasks typically assigned to gardeners and landscapers – shoveling mulch, blowing leaves and scooping up trash.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In 1935, Qassam and two of his followers ambushed a group of British Mandate policemen, murdering a Jewish sergeant.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In 1981, James Reyos, a gay Apache man, was wrongly convicted of murdering a priest.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Booting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booting. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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