How to Use the bejesus in a Sentence

the bejesus

noun

• That scared the bejesus out of me.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• This isn’t a film about trauma, or smuggled-in social issues, or anything at all, really, besides the honest workaday business of scaring the bejesus out of its audience, rinsing, and repeating with extra vigor.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
• These policies—or the lack of them—have harmed long-range educational and employment outcomes, eroded public health, entrenched inequality, discouraged couples from having children, and stressed the bejesus out of parents.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
• In its 11th annual Primetime program, the Toronto International Film Festival is bringing audiences together — to scare the bejesus out of them.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 July 2026
• The actress first turned heads in movies like The World According to Garp (1982) and The Natural (1984), then scared the bejesus out of unfaithful men everywhere with her chilling turn in Fatal Attraction (1987).
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025