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How to use billy in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Billy means a fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother. Example: “Let's get the billy and cook some beans.”

Examples of billy by meaning

nounA billy goat.

  • In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.1992, Dwight R. Schuh, “Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)”, in Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, page 276
  • It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 159

nounA slubbing or roving machine.

  • On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.1967, Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology, page 126

nounA tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

  • Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
  • By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 10
  • Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio.2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page

More sentences with billy

  • Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.From the entry cap
  • Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.From the entry agentic
  • Billy needled his sister incessantly about her pimples.From the entry needle
  • Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.From the entry hug
  • Billy made a biofriendly choice by recycling his aluminum cans.From the entry biofriendly
  • Billy the Kid was a badman.From the entry badman
  • Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.From the entry indecision
  • Billy was ready to berserk on a moment’s notice and people sensed it.2020, JD Erickson, The Adventures of the Few and Sometimes Stan, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry berserk
  • Billy had to remind himself of the little bit of history he knew about teddy bears.2016, William Joyce, “CHARGE!!!”, in Ollie’s Odyssey, Moonbot Books; Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry US of America
  • Billy is the first and only pupaphobic that I have ever encountered in my life.2013 April 16, Benny4urThoughts, “Re: Typical Leftists: Party to celebrate Thatcher's death.”, in tx.guns (Usenet). From the entry pupaphobia
  • Billy was just as yumtastic and she couldn't even sweat a palm for him.2013, Lisa Dickenson, The Twelve Dates of Christmas: Dates 5 and 6. From the entry yumtastic
  • Billy Haldane, Ursula's handsome, debonair father, was a 'Brylcreem Boy,' a Royal Air Force officer.2011, D. B. Reynolds, Loving and Writing, Writing and Loving, page 102. From the entry Brylcreem Boy
  • Billy fancied himself as a bit of a Han Solo, but he shook his head.2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, London: Harper Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry a
  • Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.2005, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History, Greystone Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry nanny
  • Billy Suggs spotted Sam standing outside the cop shop when he still was two blocks away.2005, Steve Brewer, Boost, page 42. From the entry cop shop
  • Billy had that reputation, but it goes with the turf, dig.2005, Jeffrey Miller, “I Say Banana, You Say Tomato”, in Murder’s Out of Tune (Amicus Curiae Mystery), ECW Press, →ISBN, section A (’Til…. From the entry excuse my français
  • It was in the billy cart, I suppose, that I had my first-ever races.2004, Jack Brabham, Doug Nye, The Jack Brabham Story, page 19. From the entry billy cart
  • He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, page 69. From the entry billycan
  • Billy vill talk to this man and so vill you and the others.1981, Daniel Keyes, chapter 5, in The Minds of Billy Milligan, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, book 1 (The Mix-up Time), chapter…. From the entry vay
  • Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said "anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake?"1973, Bruce Springsteen, “Spirit in the Night”, in Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.. From the entry coaster brake
  • Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 71. From the entry ragbag
  • Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five. From the entry androgyne
  • Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five. From the entry androgyne
  • Billy Vine, covered with flop sweat, started so-so, but in a few minutes he had them.15 March 1947, Bill Smith, "Night Club Reviews", Billboard page 36. From the entry flop sweat
  • Billy was by all accounts to be a Viking.2020, JD Erickson, The Adventures of the Few and Sometimes Stan, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry berserk
  • Billy used to give us shape-ups to our hair.2019, David Lyons, The Boy Becomes a Man: Confessions of an Honest Politician. From the entry shape-up
  • Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs.2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London. From the entry banjo
  • Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2). From the entry hedgy-boar
  • Billy Pughs were used at many lighthouses.2008, Betty S. Veronico, Lighthouses of the Bay Area, Arcadia Publishing, page 42. From the entry Billy Pugh
  • I′ll boil the billy for a cuppa’.2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 35. From the entry cuppa
  • Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque.2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry lumpen
  • Billy Ray Cyrus: the mullet's poster boy.2002, The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, page 64. From the entry femullet
  • Please don’t eat me!” begged the second billy goat.1987, Jim Lawrence, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing, Unisystems, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry munchy
  • Billy is speaking before a capacity audience in a baseball park, which is covered by a geodesic dome.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 6, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 181. From the entry geodesic dome

Meaning of billy

  1. noun A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
  2. noun A good friend.
  3. noun A billy goat.

Full definition of billy

Questions about billy in a sentence

How do you use billy in a sentence?
Billy is used as a noun. For example: “Let's get the billy and cook some beans.”
What is a short sentence with billy?
“Billy the Kid was a badman.”
What does billy mean?
Billy means a fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.

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