How to Use bogeyman in a Sentence

bogeyman

noun

• All the while, a bogeyman served him well—not a return to communism, Yeltsin’s scarecrow, but the chaos of Yeltsinism.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024