47 examples of bogey in sentences

" Moreover, Jimmie, swore there was something "bogey" about the boy's intermittent knowledge of English.

If we are to be defeated, it must be by them, not by their bogey-men.

"Duchess," he said, "sooner or later I felt quite sure that our conversation would draw near to the German bogey.

tikbalang: An evil spirit, capable of assuming various forms, but said to appear usually as a tall black man with disproportionately long legs: the "bogey man" of Tagalog children.

Oh, yes, princes use God as a kind of bogey to frighten grown-up children to bed with, if nothing else avails: that's why they attach so much importance to the Deity.

A dirty second-class car was provided for the Commanding Officer and his Staff, and a well-lighted first-class bogey car of eight compartments for the British Military Representative, who was merely travelling up to see the sights.

The band started "Colonel Bogey," then went on to something which I do not remember, but while we were groping about through machine-gun pits, etc., the band behind began "Tipperary."

No one has ever done the fourth in two before; it's the Bogey score.

Golf had fewer admirers than had the other sport, but what there were were fully as enthusiastic, and the coming tournament was discussed until Joel's head whirled with such apparently outlandish terms as "Bogey," "baffy," "put," "green," "foozle," and "tee.

They know their duty well; I needn't mind a Bogey or a Giant or a Bear, The Sentinels are watching on the nurs'ry stair!

But I told him that I wished he wouldn't, even in joke, allude to that bogey of the nurseries of my generation, a place of punishment.

My second landed on the green and I ran down a long puttthis for a 4-bogey hole.

Not so Lord HENRY BENTINCK, who genially exploded with "Is not Bolshevism in this country a pure bogey?"

The menace of this last was shrewdly used by making a bogey man of the trader and a reputed hell on earth of any district whither he was supposed to carry his merchandise.

Boney was a bogey; but the German was a nightmare, a thing actually sitting on top of us.

Wind has come from a clear sky and from a clouded one; we had a small blow on Tuesday but it never reached gale force; it came without warning, and every sign which we have regarded as a warning has proved a bogey.

With a rollicking gallop and a bogey ahead, that did not trouble me.

He invariably finds something pleasant to say about the most immature and unpromising efforts, and he has the knack of so handling his own early experience as to make it an encouragement and a stimulus, and not (as the manner of some is) a burden and a bogey.

One venerable bogey I wish to dispose of before I close.

Men and women took hands like little children playing a game of bogey-man.

The Bogey man will get you.

RAVAGLI, FRIEDA L. Bogey between the generations.

The Bogey man will get you.

The sole reason, therefore, for mentioning it in this paper is that it affords an indication of two things: (1)that the Government therein makes no sex distinction in the profession; (2)that the bogey of sex cleavage, so often mentioned by the timorous in the political world, is here, as always where it is put to the test, proved to be without foundation.

The bogey of his insulted Tancred pride haunted him always, and, like all foolish things, caused him more suffering than if it had been a crime.

47 examples of  bogey  in sentences