Such were the names by which he ventured to call these bugbearsof the world.
Though every one of these Bugbears is an empty Phantom, yet the People seem to believe every article of this bombastical Creed.
Though every one of these Bugbears is an empty Phantom, yet the People seem to believe every article of this bombastical Creed and tremble and shudder in Consequence.
She had been able at an early age, amidst the circumstances of a very secluded life, to throw off from her altogether those scruples of honesty, those bugbears of the world, which are apt to prevent great enterprises in the minds of men.
Was it not the business of her life, in these days, to do the best she could for herself, and would she allow paltry considerations as to the feelings of others to stand in her way and become bugbears to affright her?
And when Sir Gregory came to look into it, he hardly knew whether those bugbears with which he had tried to frighten Tudor were good serviceable bugbears, such as would stand the strain of such a man's logic and reason.
He looked at it till thebugbears shrank into utter insignificance; till they became no more than forms of shreds and patches put up to frighten birds out of cherry-orchards.
But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life.
Ah, here they are--the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!
The damp grass of the church-yard and the witches' den arebugbears no longer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bugbears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
