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"Spectre" in a Sentence (11 examples)
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism.
As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of communism.
A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.
From house to house in frenzy as I flew, / a melancholy spectre rose in view, / Creusa's very image; ay, 'twas there, / but larger than the living form I knew.
The tower, tall and narrow, and built of a greyish stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant.
A spectre of Tomoskepticism is haunting Tatoeba.
Tom's company has been haunted by the spectre of bankruptcy for some time.
The spectre of bankruptcy has loomed over Tom's firm for some time.
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To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]
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