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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:

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