Sentence example with the word 'specter'

specter

Wolf-man, bogeyman, eidolon, form, hobgoblin, incubus, ogress, presence, shade, supernatural being, waking dream

Definition n. a mental representation of some haunting experience

Last update: February 3, 2017


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He peeked out and was startled by a white-clad specter on the stairs.   [noun]

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Thus the specter of suspicion that had been hovering over the camp vanished into thin air.   [Please select]

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Instead he and his father chatted as they packed quite as pleasantly as if no specter stood between them.   [Please select]

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At last their entire stock of provisions was exhausted, and they stood face to face with the grim specter of starvation.   [Please select]

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But ever the specter of royal dignity walked beside her and held her captive.   [Please select]

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At night she was there like a slender specter, pacing beside him under the moaning pines.   [Please select]

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With the blood all drained from her face, she stared at him as if she saw a specter--"Derry," she whispered.   [Please select]

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Meanwhile a Northern politician brought on the specter of Napoleon for a different purpose.   [Please select]

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Across this scene of political harmony, however, the Missouri controversy cast the specter-like shadow of slavery.   [Please select]

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And lurking behind all was the specter of slavery and sectionalism.   [Please select]

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Yet, I am certain that not even one of these, when "looking backward from his manhood's prime, saw not the specter of his mis-spent time."   [Please select]

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