revenant
Example Sentences
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Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns.
From Los Angeles Times
James’s tales of revenants and demons are to supernatural fiction.
From Washington Post
“There is, incidentally, nothing odd in the revenant being a woman,” Rady said of the Polish case.
From Washington Post
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
