Boone

[ boon ]

noun

1. Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.
2. Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.
3. a city in central Iowa.
4. a town in NW North Carolina.

Boone

/ buːn /

noun

1. BooneDaniel17341820MAmericanMISC: pioneerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: guide Daniel . 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky

Example Sentences

Boone, 73, told The Washington Post on Wednesday that he and the club are “unfortunately” parting ways.

From Washington Post

As for Boone’s process, the numbers do speak somewhat better for the quality of the Yankees’ approach.

From FiveThirtyEight

Four seasons into Boone’s tenure as manager, fans and the media have been getting impatient with the results not catching up to the process.

From FiveThirtyEight

The Toronto Blue Jays, who beat Boone’s Yankees on Thursday, are an embodiment of the complicated position in which the country finds itself — somewhere between on guard and running out of patience.

From Washington Post

If winning is the best measure of a coach’s ability, the title of best movie coach surely goes to Boone.

From FiveThirtyEight

Because Boone is a Democratic enclave thanks in part to the college students.

From The Daily Beast

The Tall T, from a Leonard novelette, starred Randolph Scott and Richard Boone.

From The Daily Beast

Yet whenever the writers do try to enrich Keen, Boone resists them at every turn.

From The Daily Beast

Christopher John Francis Boone is a teenage “mathematician with some behavioral difficulties.”

From The Daily Beast

The new president is an African-American woman, Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

From The Daily Beast

As soon as the girls' capture was discovered, Boone and six other men set out in pursuit.

From Project Gutenberg

Boone was such a good marksman that he soon found he could kill his game with half a bullet and less powder.

From Project Gutenberg

While the younger girls cried helplessly, Boone's daughter, seeing it was of no use to struggle, quietly followed her captor.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1778, while out hunting, Boone was captured by Indians, who carried him off to Detroit.

From Project Gutenberg

Boone thus reached the Ohio, where he had the good luck to find a leaky canoe, in which he paddled across the stream.

From Project Gutenberg