How to Use boogeyman in a Sentence

boogeyman

noun
  • This is the game where Georgia plays like the boogeyman again.
    — Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bale’s Gorr is a killer boogeyman blending the campy and the creepy.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 June 2022
  • Blasting alien boogeymen with space guns has always been good fun.
    — Valentina Palladino and Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Enough with the boogeyman and the tin-foil-hat, science-denying.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • Better figure out a way past that boogeyman.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Yes, the same Anthropic that was once seen as a boogeyman.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Cars themselves are becoming a boogeyman for some on the left.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This boogeyman bleeds, Rita notes, and therefore it can be hurt.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
  • The masked boogeyman’s childhood house remains a tourist draw to this day — and a city landmark.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The second apron became the boogeyman to front offices.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • But Minnesota is no longer the boogeyman.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And new research shows that fake information may be more of a boogeyman than a true threat.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • More broadly Soros is a common boogeyman figure for those on the right.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Baltimore’s youth are not a boogeyman to fear, but people to invest in.
    — Nicolas Johnson-Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Or what about Zone 3 (which seems to have become the boogeyman of running efforts)?
    — Jason Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Vecna is the boogeyman that resides in the Creel House attic.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • People are so afraid of the auction houses, the boogeyman or whatever.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • Only the boogeyman version is portrayed.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Republicans plan to use Sanders and socialism as a foil and a boogeyman in fundraising.
    — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Top Dem legal boogeymen tee up in red state's redistricting crusade.
    — FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Republicans have cast him as a liberal boogeyman and some fellow Democrats were slow to embrace him as too far left.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Eight Fingers Nine sets up a simple story of a boogeyman who is everywhere and coming to get you.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • People from all walks of life — food writers, chefs and maybe your mom — warn of freezer burn, the boogeyman lurking in our kitchens waiting to take hold of our precious frozen foods.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If his film’s fetishized heroine manages to claw her way back out by the end, conquering her daddy issues and taking on the boogeyman, most of us are still stuck down there.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
  • The fascination with this genre is seen in motifs like El Cucuy, a boogeyman, and the shapeshifter Nagual.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Generations have been taught about stranger danger and the unknown boogeyman lurking in the shadows, waiting to commit the most heinous crimes.
    — Kc Baker, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But even with Graham’s heroics, this was only the equivalent of pushing the boogeyman back into the closet with the door still open.
    — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Like Michael Myers’ constant stalk of Laurie Strode, the boogeyman is always still out there.
    — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The Republicans always try to create boogeymen, right?
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah, the creep — like the sense of there being sort of a boogeyman under the sink or there being something just around the corner… that sense of foreboding that is so alive and so much of noir.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 June 2025

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