revenant

Example Sentences

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Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns.

From Los Angeles Times

They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.

From Los Angeles Times

In other words, the Biden administration shuffles onto the scene already a revenant; it can only offer a revivified formula of the same neoliberal strategy which has already exhausted itself in earlier decades.

From Salon

“I mean, Trump, that administration, he’s a revenant. But when Biden comes in, am I wrong to chase after them and say, ‘You got to own schools.

From Washington Times

Every zombie flick gets to establish its own rules for how these revenants function.

From Salon