ghoul
Example Sentences
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“And Nell, you’re quite brave, too—for a ghoul,” came Detective Webster’s jolly, joking whisper on the other side of me.
From Literature
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Turns out he’s a modern-day Samson: his lack of hair was the reason he was such a soulless ghoul.
From Los Angeles Times
Paula Dewar and her family have, for years, covered their home and outside street with hordes of ghouls, ghosts and goblins.
From BBC
The galloping ghouls in their low-budget 2002 thriller “28 Days Later” reinvigorated the genre.
From Los Angeles Times
The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.