Sentence examples for bogeyman for from inspiring English sources

Thatcher remains a potent bogeyman for some.

How about borrowing Beelzebub for the afternoon, or taking the bogeyman for a spin?

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

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

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

Investor-state dispute resolution is the major bogeyman for these groups.

"The rating agencies have been the all-purpose bogeymen for the crisis.

In 1985, he launched Necropia, a special-effects company, making low-end bogeymen for films being shot in Mexico City.

Each candidate has trumpeted how much the bad guys are helping his opponent, thereby bringing in not only money for himself but also fresh bogeymen for that opponent.

It also calls out other classic bogeymen for the right: the "Moveon.org Radicals," "Liberal Billionaire George Soros' attack organizations," "President Obama's Political Machine" and the "Ultra Left-Wing Elites from Hollywood and Manhattan".

The jihadis and extremists of the Arab world have served well as bogeymen for the right wing, as they have served the Gaddafis and Mubaraks whose vested interests are just as reactionary.