How to Use zombie in a Sentence
zombie
noun- His students usually sat there in the classroom like zombies.
- If I don't go to bed early I'll be a zombie tomorrow.
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The streets of Kabul were like a scene from a zombie movie.
— Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022 -
That was the case in the zombie failure of Bed Bath & Beyond.
— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 7 June 2024 -
Dre bangs on the basement door and then stands there like a zombie.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024 -
The same issue applies to most of the game's ho-hum zombie cast.
— Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022 -
Oh Joon-woo, a gamer stuck in his apartment in the midst of a zombie attack.
— Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Turn on your Halloween lights so the zombies glow during the night.
— Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023 -
The adult zombie flies stalk adult bees and lay their eggs inside them.
— oregonlive, 3 July 2022 -
Snyder knows how to make a zombie movie—that's for damn sure.
— Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2022 -
And is there any way for homeowners to fight the zombies?
— Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, NPR, 10 May 2024 -
On the other hand, the zombie heads in the sand, covered with crabs (food, Morgan!
— Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 June 2022 -
Her band joined in the fun as Frankenstein, a zombie, Swamp Thing, ghouls, and vampires.
— Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Nov. 2022 -
The Plaid is a zombie at the limit, with nothing coming up through the two girthy grips at the end of the steering yoke.
— Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021 -
As Margaret points out, Mr. Williams goes through life like a zombie.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 -
The fate of a nation all rests in the hands of one man who managed to survive a deadly zombie virus.
— Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 11 Feb. 2022 -
There are more than 30 ways to play — from bumper cars to paddle boats, zombie bowling to archery.
— Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022 -
Here’s a stranger kind of mix-and-match zombie: pain-pleasure inverts.
— Philip Goff, Scientific American, 3 July 2024 -
The ‘Don’t Stop Your Future’ campaign wants to ban zombie knives and machetes.
— Emma Ogao, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024 -
The four-day schedule of frigid fun begins on Thursday, March 14, with a zombie bar crawl.
— Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024 -
That's because of something that could be called zombie ice.
— Seth Borenstein, Chron, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Ribeiro made a growling face while Maksim made a zombie face.
— Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023 -
Through this change, the episode tells a new, more hopeful story about the zombie apocalypse.
— Riley MacLeod, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023 -
George Romero [creator of the Night of the Living Dead zombie horror franchise] loved it.
— Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2024 -
These zombie pumpkins are one spooky way to greet your Halloween guests.
— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022 -
There’s a zombie army of Redbox kiosks lurking across the country.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2024 -
Among her tasks that day was to charge a group of zombie-eyed teenage girls with prostitution.
— Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022 -
The Wade gang gave us zombie realness for the holiday, and the make up is amazing.
— Essence, 1 Nov. 2021 -
As well as zombies and horror, the new slate goes long on romance series.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Halloween Zombie jokes How do zombies serve their country?
— Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
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