Sentence examples for a bogeyman for from inspiring English sources

We considered the VC little more than a nightmare, a rumor, a bogeyman for scaring children.

He opened warm diplomatic ties with Israel and befriended Germany, then a bogeyman for many Czechoslovaks.

The energetic young clergyman or woman in a colourful woolly jumper was once a BBC sit-com trope or a bogeyman for conservative churchgoers.

And what better time than now, when Russia is stuck in the bowels of an economic crisis, to create a bogeyman for the people to stand united against?

But I do think he ought to stop waving at a fantastic vision of a Europe that doesn't exist when he needs a bogeyman for whatever point he's trying to score in an argument.

But for countries that have not been through Thatcherism, the EU has often been a genuinely liberalising force, compelling countries to open their markets and abandon state subsidies.As a result, it has become a bogeyman for Europe's radical left.

They are narratives of subjectless power, a convenient bogeyman for a world driven by forces that have no subjective agency: Mother Nature, global pandemics, the political machine at work beyond the individual's reach.

So the magazine decided to run a bogeyman story for summer nights around the campfire?

ISIS is just a convenient bogeyman for fading colonial powers to prove a point that they still 'matter' on the world stage, by having another modern-day crusade.

Thatcher remains a potent bogeyman for some.

X-RAYS would make a convenient bogeyman for my gardening failures.