How to Use boogeyman in a Sentence

boogeyman

noun

• Researchers who study these topics and may share findings with the government have become recurring boogeyman characters in right-wing conspiracy theories online.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 14 June 2024
• Bale’s Gorr is a killer boogeyman blending the campy and the creepy.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 June 2022
• The district’s been the boogeyman in the first two seasons.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• Enough with the boogeyman and the tin-foil-hat, science-denying.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
• So don’t get your hopes up about any creepy boogeymen here.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• It’s now all one mega-boogeyman that must be erased, canceled, cut off from the world.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Mar. 2022
• Vecna is the boogeyman that resides in the Creel House attic.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• Is there a boogeyman that hangs out in your bedroom closet?
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Or what about Zone 3 (which seems to have become the boogeyman of running efforts)?
  — Jason Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2023
• More broadly Soros is a common boogeyman figure for those on the right.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
• This boogeyman bleeds, Rita notes, and therefore it can be hurt.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• Cars themselves are becoming a boogeyman for some on the left.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• The fascination with this genre is seen in motifs like El Cucuy, a boogeyman, and the shapeshifter Nagual.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Now that those Sunnis are pretty firmly in the U.S. corner, there’s less reason to cite the boogeyman in Tehran.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2008
• Blasting alien boogeymen with space guns has always been good fun.
  — Valentina Palladino and Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2020
• And new research shows that fake information may be more of a boogeyman than a true threat.
  — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2021
• Besides, the prospect of President Michael R. Pence is not exactly a boogeyman those on the right should fear.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
• But for Ryan, like most in his party, the deficit was a convenient boogeyman, only to be set loose when the GOP was out of power.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the region of southern Chhattisgarh known as Bastar, the boogeyman has been the Christian.
  — Shams Irfan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• Amid the relentless stock declines, some blamed a different boogeyman: Investors who bet on a fall in the price of a stock.
  — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Like Michael Myers’ constant stalk of Laurie Strode, the boogeyman is always still out there.
  — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• The boogeyman is real sometimes: Forget the monster under the bed.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• People are so afraid of the auction houses, the boogeyman or whatever.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2021
• The March 2020 settlement has become a boogeyman to Trump and his Georgia allies.
  — Daniel Dale, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• It’s too easy for politicians looking for a boogeyman to think of reporters as the shrill pundits arguing on TV.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• The group gathered around the town square, waiting for the arrival of what has become a new American boogeyman: antifa.
  — Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• Friday the 13th is, at its core, the story of fallout from a lost child, as well as the story of the kind of magical thinking that turns that child into a boogeyman by the end of the film.
  — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2023
• But even with Graham’s heroics, this was only the equivalent of pushing the boogeyman back into the closet with the door still open.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 7 Jan. 2018
• Republicans plan to use Sanders and socialism as a foil and a boogeyman in fundraising.
  — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2020
• Though decidedly spooky, the Gray Man is hardly a boogeyman.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024