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

“Explaining something makes it go away,” Gorey once said, and like the revenants in his pictures, he planned to stay a while.

From New York Times