booked

past tense of book

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for booked
Verb
  • As the sixth Malt Master in Glenfiddich’s 130-year history, Brian has taken on a role reserved for only a select few since William Grant & Sons first distilled a drop of whisky.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Phil opened a non-public back door and reserved a parking space.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Mitchell exited the game against Mississippi State on Thursday with a knee injury, and Gates decided to sit him against the Gators.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Norman Fell and Audra Lindley also exited one season earlier for failed spinoff The Ropers and was replaced by Don Knotts as Ralph Furley, the new landlord.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Separately, the Health Department hired the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors to audit Perkins.
    Katie Mettler, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Last year, the foundation hired consultant U3 Advisors to dream up a big-picture vision for San Diego’s Civic Center blocks.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The family departed Westchester County Airport on Saturday morning.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Ten of those ships departed from, or docked in, Florida or both.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Those bleak years devastated the American rail industry, as revenue fell by 50 percent from 1928 to 1933, and a third of the country’s railroads went into bankruptcy.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Someone won a $68 million jackpot in New York on Christmas Eve in 2002, but that prize went unclaimed.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • That’s quite a feat for a team that started playing football in 1925.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The cold of the night had returned, and the baby had started to shiver.
    Karen Zautyk, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital evacuated the patients from the building after a phone call from someone who identified himself as Israeli security shortly before the attack.
    Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
  • They were evacuated and the fire was extinguished, officials said.
    Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • India escaped the scary moment unscathed.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Anderson, who retired his first 10 batters, walked the bases loaded with one out in the fourth, but escaped the jam by striking out Jeremy Peña and getting Diaz to line out.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Booked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booked. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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