incubus

Example Sentences

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Let’s pause here briefly to note that Immanuel is likely referencing incubi and succubi in her sermons.

From The Guardian

In similar spirit, Johnson found fresh depths of populist vulgarity when he spoke last June of pitchforking the EU incubus off the nation’s back.

From The Guardian

All so they can keep expanding, squatting over lives like feudal incubi.

From The Guardian

The woman — girl, really — was physically tiny, not to mention inappropriately dressed for the task of extracting this colossal incubus, this 10-ton Minotaur, from the fourth floor.

From New York Times

For decades, poorly justified scientific fears of future warming have hovered as an incubus over U.S. energy development.

From The Wall Street Journal