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Example sentences for: bogeyman

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

An old-man figure called el abuelo (the grandfather) played the role of a bogeyman in Hispano folklore.
In Spanish it means “grandfather,” and has become synonymous with coco, cucui, and 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.
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.
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).