How to Use bugbear in a Sentence

bugbear

noun

• The biggest bugbear of the skiing business is a winter with no snow.
• The question of how to fly with a cello is a bugbear among many string players.
  — John Phipps, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
• Timings, though, can often be a bugbear.
  — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• His shoulders, for one, have always been a real bugbear for him.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• Many of the series' most pernicious bugbears have been dumped.
  — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• Such cases have been a bugbear for the liberal civil-rights cause.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• What was once a virtue has become a generational bugbear.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
• Samsung’s other software bugbears are present on the Note 9, too.
  — Dan Seifert, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2018
• Take The Mandibles, a book that revolves around the national debt, long a bugbear of hers.
  — Adelle Waldman, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
• Charging infrastructure is likely to be the biggest bugbear for the next few years.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• Those claims play into concerns about government overreach, a common right-wing bugbear.
  — Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2024
• This has been one of its main bugbears for years, with several engine types experimented with.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
• This approach has raised anew the bugbear of the unassimilable Other in our midst.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• The crushing of socialism—and a new bugbear, communism—was total.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2022
• For many in the field of sustainable investing, one of the biggest bugbears has been a lack of standardization.
  — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 25 June 2019
• Range anxiety, once the bugbear of mainstream thought about EVs, is no longer the top concern for shoppers.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 27 May 2022
• The heat and humidity during our test week brought me to my other bugbear with the C-HR.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
• Among other moves, China has already cracked down on trading halts, a major bugbear for foreign investors.
  — Shen Hong, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
• Airbus said three problem aircraft programs will remain a bugbear for the rest of the year after weighing on earnings in the first quarter.
  — Benjamin Katz, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• The theme is light and fairly inconsequential, so even those who don’t know the difference between a goblin and a bugbear can still have a blast.
  — Aaron Zimmerman, Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2017
• Though trade is perhaps more to blame for dairy farmers’ struggles, alternative milks have become an industry bugbear.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2019
• Low volumes of trading has been a common bugbear for foreign investors looking at investing in Tadawul.
  — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• The turbulence created in a car’s wake is the eternal bugbear of F1 fans and rulemakers.
  — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Fellow curmudgeons will also recognize all of my bugbears as losing battles.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The latest edition of this survey, out this week, found that EV’s perennial bugbear is still bugbearing.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024
• The new drivers also fix some bugbears that’ve been irritating AMD users.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 Sep. 2019
• That’s a particular bugbear for astronomers — artificial light obscures their view of the faintest objects.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2020
• Anyway, one of Curtis's longtime bugbears is the fictitious threat of fictitious voter fraud.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
• This was one of the series' continuing bugbears, as explained in this three-part post by Yamauchi from 2014.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
• Lounger-hogging like this is a constant bugbear for cruise lines; indeed, a few years ago, Carnival tested a program where staffers would patrol loungers like pool police.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019