Example sentences for: bogeyman

How can you use “bogeyman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now he is deploying his pain in a legislatively less specific way, to try to show that he is not the reactionary bogeyman most people think he is.

  • An old-man figure called el abuelo (the grandfather) played the role of a bogeyman in Hispano folklore.

  • Throughout the year if children misbehaved, parents would threaten them, “Si no te sosiegas, llamo el abuelo” (If you don’t behave, I’ll call the bogeyman).

  • While we wait and wait for him to tell us what he wants, the movie employs stalling devices such as the search in a darkened house for the elusive bogeyman.

  • The latest bogeyman: peanut butter allergies.


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