Spectre

Synonyms for "spectre" (16 found)

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Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.

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A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism.

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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.

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A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of communism.

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