How to Use bogeyman in a Sentence

bogeyman

noun
  • The fact is that Amazon is the bogeyman that can come at you in three to five years.
    Laura Stevens, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • Come celebrate the woman who dodged the bogeyman for decades, and be assured that he’s been put to bed for good … or has he?
    Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The cartel has often been a bogeyman for U.S. politicians since the first oil crisis in 1973.
    Javier Blas, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2018
  • With an election year around the corner, the White House has tried to cast the Federal Reserve as a bogeyman.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • In recent days, a new bogeyman emerged in the form of a trio of bank failures and the chilling specter of a financial crisis.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This becomes the bogeyman that haunts her after the tragic failure of the science project.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
  • But the bogeyman of mass unemployment is still nowhere in sight.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Nonetheless, Quill has become a bogeyman of politicians on the left and right.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • For years, carbon dioxide has been the bogeyman of climate change, and rightly so.
    Tianyi Sun, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Many used the existence of the video to reinforce the notion of the African-American bogeyman.
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The Koch network has been a bogeyman on the left and its backing in a primary may not be as helpful as Koch strategists hope.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 7 June 2019
  • But in the 1970s, the bogeyman was rampant inflation, ignited by OPEC’s tripling of oil prices.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Not all analysts see it as the No. 1 bogeyman facing stocks.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Biden, the Democrats, and the liberal culture have been unable to transform him into a bogeyman.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 June 2023
  • That menace is a favorite bogeyman for deficit hawks in Congress.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2018
  • This is another page in the Bliss playbook: find a bogeyman and make the race a referendum on that person.
    Philip Elliott / Omaha, Time, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The West, symbolized by the United States, is the perennial bogeyman.
    Tim Arango, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
  • The point is: DEI is neither a bogeyman nor a bureaucracy.
    Jay S. Feldstein, Fortune, 19 June 2023
  • In his prime, Roethlisberger was a horror-movie bogeyman in a No. 7 jersey, the figure who could not be pulled to the turf at the game’s crucial moments.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Scott seems almost wistful now to recall the Nineties, when the bogeyman in America was crack cocaine.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
  • By their lights, one of this bogeyman’s hallmarks is its amnesia.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Trump, of course, ignored it and turned Hispanics and Muslims into the bogeymen of his campaign.
    Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2017
  • California is still up there, but Illinois could emerge as the new bogeyman for natives trying to keep out-of-staters at bay.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Bret Stephens, a colleague of Weiss’ in the opinion section at the Times, who seems to live for the thrill of being a bogeyman contrarian, came to Lipton’s defense.
    Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 17 Feb. 2018
  • And in the title role, the astonishing Lars Eidinger is a bogeyman guaranteed to haunt your nightmares for weeks to come.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That’s a hyperpop bogeyman as potent as the yuppie was for hardcore punk, or as the senator’s son was for the Woodstock crowd.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2021
  • If there was a bogeyman of the corporate world that can't be ignored, then leadership takes the pole position.
    Thomas "ai Nerd" Helfrich, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • King’s monsters will remind you of vampires and bogeymen and some of his villains aren’t too far off from sounding like the Devil himself.
    Gina Vaynshteyn, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • This made some sense with inflation for the first time in a while becoming the primary market bogeyman over a slowing economy.
    John Melloy, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And as the GOP convention has shown this week, that bogeyman is quite useful in rallying Republicans against a common enemy.
    Stef W. Kight, Axios, 18 July 2024

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