Examples of “bugbear” in a Sentence

noun A problem that keeps coming back and causes trouble.

• Level crossings are the bugbear of railway operation at Hull. There are no fewer than 16 within the city boundary. — , Talking of Trains: Hull's level crossing problem (1962)
• Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust. — O. S. M. Raw, The Rhodesia Railways—I (1940)

noun Something that causes fear, annoyance or lasting resentment.

• Next, they operate in constrained worlds. Apple is a particular bugbear for Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Sweeney. — , The billionaire battle for the metaverse (2021)