bogy

Example Sentences

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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

The reason for the fears about churches accepting federal funds is that worrisome ecclesiastical bogy, Erastianism*�state control of the church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ironsi proposed to deal with the old bogy of tribal rivalry by demoting Nigeria's four semiautonomous regions to "provinces," and by banning the old regional parties.

From Time Magazine Archive

My! how the human mind clings to everything, even words, that express its chief bogy, fear.”

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis