How do you use Bugbears in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Bugbears meaning
plural of bugbear
Using Bugbears
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bugbear
Context around Bugbears
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bugbears
- In this selection, "bugbears" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, familiar and don stand out and add context to how "bugbears" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afraid of bugbears and hobgoblins and been the bugbears of centrist. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bugbears" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bugbears
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For Orbán, the problem is less the virus itself than other familiar bugbears. (13 words)
Bugbears don't have the same naming guides the way more popular races like humans and elves do. (18 words)
For decades, Social Security and Medicare have been the bugbears of centrist austerians who (supposedly) want to cut the federal budget deficit. (22 words)
For decades, Social Security and Medicare have been the bugbears of centrist austerians who (supposedly) want to cut the federal budget deficit. (22 words)
The earlier images, she says, seemed “stolen” – another of her bugbears, in that snatched pictures take the power away from their subjects. (22 words)
Other passages are merely sceptical in tone: "he persuades men to atheism, willing them not to be afraid of bugbears and hobgoblins". (22 words)
Example sentences (5)
Bugbears don't have the same naming guides the way more popular races like humans and elves do.
For decades, Social Security and Medicare have been the bugbears of centrist austerians who (supposedly) want to cut the federal budget deficit.
For Orbán, the problem is less the virus itself than other familiar bugbears.
The earlier images, she says, seemed “stolen” – another of her bugbears, in that snatched pictures take the power away from their subjects.
Other passages are merely sceptical in tone: "he persuades men to atheism, willing them not to be afraid of bugbears and hobgoblins".