Example Sentences

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Then he eats some blueberries, which he calls bobos, and we’ll have some breakfast, which can be eggs or something like that.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

When a family of New York bobos sets off for a weekend in the Hamptons, and the writer is Rumaan Alam, you expect a social satire — and get it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

The district's longstanding working-class residents have been joined over the decades by immigrants from North Africa, young creative types and — as social cachet and property prices rose — by well-off "bourgeois bohemians" or "bobos."

From US News • Nov. 19, 2015

And as a sign that the bobos might soon be ceding their territory to tourists — already appearing on boat tours of the canal — Le Citizen, the quartier’s first boutique hotel, made its debut.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011

And is it not undeniable that the two golden centuries of Spanish art and literature flourished under this bugbear horror, this "coco de ni�os y espantajo de bobos," as Men�ndez y Pelayo calls it?

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle