Sentence examples for boogeyman a from inspiring English sources
Before yesterday, experts in risk assessment considered airplane crashes the great American boogeyman: a minuscule danger that generated wildly disproportionate fears because it was so unusual and so sensational.
Still, though they grow vaguer with time, his name and face persist in the culture as shorthand for a certain kind of boogeyman, a pied piper of death, and a lasting avatar of What Went Wrong with the 1960s — the Bummer of Love.
Other metafictional references include a character commenting on the "terrible script" of Boogeyman, a film written by Kripke; Sam becoming uncomfortable as the studio tour passes the set of Gilmore Girls, a television series in which Padalecki had a recurring role; and Sam proclaiming Hollywood's weather to be "positively Canadian".
Now meet the Boogeyman, an evil interloper who wants to pitch the entire world into eternal darkness.
On the streets and in the markets of Pakistan, Raymond Davis remains the boogeyman, an American killer lurking in the subconscious of a deeply insecure nation.
Apparently in an age where I have access to practically all human knowledge in the palm of my hand, an age where robots roll around on Mars, we still need someone to protect us from a boogeyman using a glorified tin can on a string.
At a moment when the Trump administration is waging all-out war on environmentalism, macheting away regulations and gearing up for a massive pipeline construction spree, "eco-terrorism" is re-emerging as a boogeyman in a way it hasn't since right after 9/11.
"We have identified something that is not just a boogeyman, but a real issue.
The monster is a fictional boogeyman from a children's story book who torments its victims until they become aware of its existence.
It is reminiscent of the era our great-grandparents were happy to have left behind: denigrating democratic institutions, dismissing the media as a "lying press," making a boogeyman out of a minority group.
We need to talk about why a little girl's boogeyman was a hijab-cutting Islamophobic attacker.
