incubus
Example Sentences
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Either side of this 10-foot incubus Bryan Robson and Peter Shilton pose supportively, like game but frightened parents.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2020
But, as Pope Francis has said, there is a moral incubus on mankind to make a reality of Article 6 of the agreement pledging the abolition of nuclear weapons altogether.
From US News • Aug. 10, 2015
At some midpoint in this incubus, it seemed that nothing would ever seem stupid, or at least surprisingly stupid, ever again.
From Slate
Today the incubus of the regional inferiority complex is lifting from the back of the Southerner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost every family had its assigned plot of land which they cultivated, and the fruits of which they enjoyed without the incubus of a rack-renting system, because the virgin soil always afforded an abundant harvest.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
Vocabulary lists containing incubus
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale
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