bogeyman

How To Use bogeyman In A Sentence

• Terrorism may have replaced the Devil as the bogeyman, but the same principle applies.
• How did such a committed environmentalist as Helm become the greens' bogeyman? Times, Sunday Times
• The Bogeyman is not big on training aids, mainly because they require some type of training, but I recently came across a remarkable new gadget called The Gyro Swing. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
• We have to bid farewell to our best friends - the giants, the fairies, Santa Claus and the bogeyman.
• Anyway, in the first keynote political speech of the year, she's reanimated the old bogeyman argument that earth's oil supply is about to run out.
• The term "bogeyman" seems to have come from the Welsh "bwg" spirit and the word "bug" was applied to insects because of the belief that insects were souls in search of rebirth. WalesOnline - Home
• I dunno, is that really the bogeyman the fully insured republican congressman thinks it is? Matthew Yglesias » NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine
• Nonetheless, I want to constantly acknowledge that the risk of the slippery slope isn't just some bogeyman - it's a reflection of real processes that occur in human institutions.
• It's become an iconic canvas onto which an entire generation projected its fear of the Other, a 1960s bogeyman.
• Consequently bogeyman excuses are co-opted to obtain sanction for this unethical abrogation of a natural right even more fundamental than liberty. I, Pirate …