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How to use bogey in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb

Bogey means a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature. Example: “We've got a bogey at one o'clock.”

Examples of bogey by meaning

nounA bugbear: any terrifying thing.

  • If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 54
  • England could have been forgiven for believing the fates were against them as they trailed to their League A Group Four opponents, who have become something of a bogey side over the years.2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport

nounAn unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.

  • Army and government trucks passed along the road every few minutes, some bearing radiation stickers; many of those outward bound, he knew, carried fragments of the bogey.1987, Greg Bear, “Lacrimosa Dies Illa!”, in The Forge of God (science fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83

nounSynonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.

  • This bogey is all over me.1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Cougar

nounThe notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.

  • ‘I was just having a practice round against bogey,’ he said. ‘I caddied for myself, so there were no witnesses.’1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings

nounA swim or bathe; a bath.

  • My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids there was no excuse not to take a bogey.1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008...

More sentences with bogey

  • We've got a bogey at one o'clock.From the entry one o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at two o'clock.From the entry two o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at three o'clock.From the entry three o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at five o'clock.From the entry five o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at four o'clock.From the entry four o'clock
  • We've got some bogeys at six o'clock.From the entry six o'clock
  • You've got a bogey on your six o'clock.From the entry six o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at seven o'clock.From the entry seven o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at eight o'clock.From the entry eight o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at ten o'clock.From the entry ten o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at eleven o'clock.From the entry eleven o'clock
  • We've got a bogey at nine o'clock.From the entry nine o'clock
  • The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour.2001, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music, page 223. From the entry bodgie
  • After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33. From the entry smackless
  • What he did'nt(sic) realise was that the boggie(sic - bogey(police officer)) was getting her at it.1958, Frank Norman, chapter 3, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life, page 151. From the entry get someone at it
  • Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”2014, David Bleiler, TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN. From the entry stick one's neck out
  • He has become the local bogey man."1987, Thomas Flanagan, novel: The Tenants of Time chapter 12. From the entry bogeyman
  • The bogey gave him a right coating.1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501. From the entry coating
  • If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, page 13. From the entry sleuth

Meaning of bogey

  1. noun A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
  2. noun The Devil.
  3. noun A bugbear: any terrifying thing.

Full definition of bogey

Questions about bogey in a sentence

How do you use bogey in a sentence?
Bogey is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We've got a bogey at one o'clock.”
What is a short sentence with bogey?
“This bogey is all over me.”
What does bogey mean?
Bogey means a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bogey (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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