bogeyman

Example Sentences

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He embraced the role of migra bogeyman like a tween boy scarfing down a bowl of Warheads, always promising more deportations, more chaos, more more.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The third holds that we’ve come a long way in ridding ourselves of racism—particularly of the institutional kind—but stops short of declaring the bogeyman dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

From despair and optimism to downright fear of new England bogeyman Mitchell Starc.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Opponents of Proposition 50 have their own bogeyman.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

The bogeyman our mothers used to threaten us with when we were slow to finish our meals.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed