Sentence examples for bogeyman to from inspiring English sources

Partly, it's because we have a new bogeyman to keep us preoccupied.

Rome was now justifiably terrified of Hannibal, and he became a bogeyman to Roman children.

But an American rightwing without a bogeyman to fear can't long survive.

And they are hoping to use President Putin as a useful bogeyman to protect the military's vested interests.

Andrew Adonis is something of a bogeyman to many in the education establishment and the Labour backbenches.

Of course, the UAW had other headwinds, besides political animosity and the lack of a bogeyman to campaign against.

In response, Duvalier organized a paramilitary group the so-called Tontons Macoutes ("Bogeymen")—to terrorize the population.

The left's candidate, ex-mayor of a town once known as Italy's Stalingrad, could scarcely be more typical of the ex-communisti Mr Berlusconi uses as bogeymen to scare the middle classes.

We've got so many homegrown bogeymen to draw from that it'd be a waste not to pounce upon the opportunity to unsparingly lampoon them in the streets for treats and the general merriment of our little devils.

The neo-Expressionists aren't bogeymen to them, and the act of painting is free of the "bourgeois" reputation it acquired with multimedia and politically strident artists in the 90's.

I was surprised that I didn't get blamed for that.' Finally, I ask Manson if there's a danger that a cultural provocateur like himself could become redundant now that America has real bogeymen to deal with.