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How to use bounty in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Bounty means generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity. Example: “The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.”

Examples of bounty by meaning

nounA reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.

  • In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Systems Alliance: Geological Survey...

nounA monetary reward for capturing (or, in the past, killing) a person accused or convicted of a crime and who is at...

  • Whatever may be said in favor of bounties on the larger beasts of prey, those on hawks, owls, and the smaller fur-bearing animals can not be justified.1910, David E. Lantz, “Natural Enemies of the Rat”, in The Rat and Its Relation to Public Health (Public Health Bulletin; no. 30)...
  • In her six years as a bounty hunter she witnessed many things.2000, Shane Gooding, Bounties: The Pretty Little Killers, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 76
  • He and Matt had been drinking and talking the past few hours, mainly of the Underdog's bounty experiences.2013, Joey Hoffman, The Bounty Hunters, [Victoria, B.C.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 61

nounAn abundance or wealth.

  • America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6

More sentences with bounty

  • The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.From the entry reporter
  • I want my part of the bounty.From the entry part
  • Countries with export surpluses foisted them off by bounties or placed them through unilateral agreements.2017, Broadus Mitchell, The Depression Decade, page 182. From the entry foist off
  • Besides the cattle company paid a bounty for each coyote, loper wolf, panther, bobcat or bear.1936, James Shannon Buchanan, Chronicles of Oklahoma. From the entry loper
  • Besides turts big enough to act as foundations for your new seafaring home, Genesis is offering a bounty of new critters.2020 March 1, Natalie Clayton, “Part one of Ark Genesis' monstrous expansion is out now”, in Rock Paper Shotgun. From the entry turt
  • To do otherwise is to ignore the bounties of technology—a culpable neglect—and to misprepare her for life and work after school.2015, Rand J. Spiro, Michael DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Reading at a Crossroads?. From the entry misprepare
  • Beowulf tasted the beaker on the hall-floor; no need had he to be ashamed of that bounty giving before the archers.2014, R. B. Morgan, Readings in English Social History. From the entry ale-bench
  • Further, that bounties are wajib, so revealed obligations are wajib.2004, Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi, Andrew Rippin, Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry wajib
  • The Bush Administration had made the capture of General Noriega a principal objective, putting a $1 million bounty on his head.1989 December 25, Larry Rohter, “Fighting in Panama; Noriega Seeks Asylum at Vatican Embassy”, in New York Times. From the entry on one's head
  • The majority of snakes were killed on the spot, as a snaker only had to produce the rattles to collect the bounty.2017, Kenny Salwey, J. Scott Bestul, The Last River Rat: Kenny Salwey's Life in the Wild. From the entry rattle
  • Runaway slaves and free blacks were constantly being kidnapped by New York City’s many “Blackbirders,” slave-catching bounty hunters who deported their captures to the plantations.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 22, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry blackbirder
  • And these water-cooler effects, the social effects, I think, can provide a strong disincentive, a disincentive which bounty programs are meant to overcome.2011 May 11, Legislative Proposals to Address the Negative Consequences of the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions: Hearing before the…. From the entry water-cooler effect
  • By the time he was a youngly adult dragon, he had secured a position as the most ruthless and feared bounty hunter in the Realm.2009, Jason DeGray, Absolutely True Retellings: the Saga of Shamus. From the entry youngly
  • We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused.1983, David Earl Brown, The Wolf in the Southwest: the making of an endangered species. From the entry lobo
  • While the frozen continents are largely bereft of life, a rich bounty of complex organisms — many larger than a human — flourish in the chilly, toxic seas.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Patavig. From the entry biosphere
  • Edward Bonney, a bounty hunter who passed bogus on occasion, claimed to have been working to break up yet another gang operating on the Mississippi with a base at Nauvoo.1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, pages 269–70. From the entry bogus

Meaning of bounty

  1. noun Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.
  2. noun Something given liberally; a gift.
  3. noun A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.

Full definition of bounty

Questions about bounty in a sentence

How do you use bounty in a sentence?
Bounty is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.”
What is a short sentence with bounty?
“I want my part of the bounty.”
What does bounty mean?
Bounty means generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.

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