Sentence examples for for a boogeyman from inspiring English sources

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With his brash rhetoric and hypernationalist platform, Donald Trump at times seems like a gift to activists looking for a boogeyman to rally the immigrant community.

Need For a Boogeyman"If Hamas were to go down it would be hell — really fundamentalist Islamists are waiting behind the corner," Landau said.

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Hillary Clinton has responded by giving speeches attacking Trump for "protectionism," a boogeyman word for the globalist elite she represents.

And although resistance certainly exists, it may, in some cases, be a bit of a boogeyman.

But Hamas making peace with Fatah is not as much of a boogeyman anymore.

The opposition, he said, is "looking for a federal boogeyman under every piece of sagebrush".

For Apple, there's always a boogeyman.

But when we conceive of homophobia as a boogeyman responsible for only the most obvious and egregious horrors, we miss the finer, nuanced, harder-to-see -- and therefore in some ways more dangerous -- moments that are also homophobic (however "polite" they might seem) and have very real consequences.

What accounts for this need of Iran as a boogeyman?

"Satanists" became a boogeyman that could be blamed for all sorts of anxieties related to "family values," crime, safety, class, and a whole network of other social and economic problems.

"He doesn't really have a boogeyman right now".

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