Sample Sentences for
specter
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    It was my father, standing on my doorstep like some awful specter summoned by my hatefulness.  (source)
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    Then the class captain would blow his whistle and we'd march in a single file to our classrooms, longing for winter already, greeted instead by the specter of yet another long school year.  (source)
    specter = a disturbing mental image
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    Readers of this book will realize quickly that there is little relationship between that specter and my argument: I have known many welfare queens; some were my neighbors, and all were white.  (source)
    specter = disturbing mental image
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    Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands.  (source)
    spectre = ghost
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
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    The specter of never-ending conflict with his Christian neighbors renewed Paul's feelings of despair.  (source)
    specter = a frightening or disturbing possibility
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    Our reflections shivered in the mirrored panes like spectres.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
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    The black-and-white specters of Ralph and Alice Kramden argued over a meatloaf.  (source)
    specters = ghostly appearing images
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    Marx a spectre is haunting Europe Hilde got off her bed and went to the window facing the bay.†  (source)
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    As for Tante Jans, her own particular specter moved very close.†  (source)
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    What had hours before been the mart of commerce was now an indescribable chaos of broken columns, fallen walls, streets covered with debris, melted metal, charred and blackened trees standing like spectres.†  (source)
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    Call the Cruets, the Hags, the Specters, and the people of the Toadstools.†  (source)
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    They had rejected or removed M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M-1 Abrams tanks, and AC-130 Spectre gunships.†  (source)
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    It had become a kind of specter for me, that airless little room with no windows.†  (source)
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