revenant

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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

Fife officials note that Adie’s grave is the only known example of a “revenant” burial in Scotland, where the burial was designed to prevent the deceased from “rising from the grave.”

From Fox News

Love is a recurrent theme, often between a studious young man and an enigmatic beauty of unknown background who, alas, generally turns out to be a revenant or were-vixen.

From Washington Post