How to Use bugaboo in a Sentence

bugaboo

noun

• And in the Orioles’ 5-3 loss to the Mariners, that was the bugaboo for Castro again.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2018
• The first half has also been a bugaboo for the Bears this season.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• The power play has been a Bruins bugaboo for much of the second half of the season.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• Of late, WSU’s pass defense has been the major bugaboo.
  — oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2019
• The woes inside the division have been a year-long bugaboo.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 27 June 2017
• The Spurs’ biggest bugaboo in the game: 19 turnovers, resulting in 26 OKC points.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2021
• First, let’s disabuse ourselves of the bugaboo of the mass exit of teachers.
  — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Which brings us back to that bugaboo of the gas industry, weather.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Moreover, the Phillies have been a bit of a bugaboo for Darvish as his teams are just 1-6 against them in his seven career starts.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
• Notably absent from his long list of perps are trial lawyers, the preferred bugaboo of the right.
  — Seth Stern, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• The Thorns haven’t been without their chances, putting plenty of shots on goal, but finishing has been the bugaboo as of late.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
• One bugaboo all season: failure of the defensemen to get shots through and on net.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• Pearl hopes his staff can find some ways to curb the bugaboo of foul issues that could eventually bite the Tigers.
  — al, 11 Jan. 2022
• Winning streak pride aside, there were a number of bugaboos that cost the Cavs a 14th straight victory.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Showing up for the playoffs hasn’t been the Cowboys' issue; hanging around is the bugaboo.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020
• How about banning specific weapons, such as the left's biggest bugaboo — the evil AR-15?
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 Oct. 2017
• Most of all, however, an anemic offense has been the biggest bugaboo for the Jaguars.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 17 Nov. 2020
• That means finishing, a bugaboo for this team for the past two seasons, will need to simply be better.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2023
• But the bugaboo is that climate change is a slippery little devil.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• There, a familiar bugaboo resurfaced — struggles in the red zone.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2021
• But even if that comes to pass, what about Grantham's other main bugaboo: resource depletion?
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2013
• Bruce Bochy has a lot more to work with than Woodward or Jeff Banister did, but pitching remains a bugaboo.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 July 2023
• The bugaboo then, as in years past, was the Black and Gold’s inability to establish inside ice in the offensive zone, to wring out that tough goal.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• UF’s issues go beyond a new-look offensive line, which many thought would be the biggest bugaboo.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• But Smiley ran on a theme of improving quality of life for residents, and the ATVs are a bugaboo.
  — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Doval allowed a run and put the go-ahead runner on first with a pitch clock violation — a consistent bugaboo for him — but still escaped in the top of the ninth.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2024
• Connecting play was the bugaboo for Portland throughout the first 45 minutes.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022
• Blocking is their primary bugaboo, but the offensive line has time to heal.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• But the 47-year-old with 44 worldwide victories was betrayed by his putter, long the bugaboo of one of the game’s premier ballstrikers.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2021
• Speech delays There weren’t teleprompter flubs or wardrobe malfunctions, but getting access to one’s acceptance speech turned out to be the biggest bugaboo of the show.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024