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.
  • Some zombies up in a tree nest.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • There will be zombies, of course.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Tech be damned, zombies still want to eat brains.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Jan. 2026
  • And there’s no way to know if this bill is dead or a zombie.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hell, even the side-piece zombie mode felt meaty enough to be its own meal.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There are fireballs of zombies on the loose.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This will happen even if said zombie is very slow and far away.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Dre bangs on the basement door and then stands there like a zombie.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Snyder knows how to make a zombie movie—that's for damn sure.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2022
  • There's nothing quite like a posse of zombie back-up dancers.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
  • So, what’s a zombie fighter to do?
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But then, he was brought back to life and kept as a zombie at Vought.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • More to the point, Julian is a zombie.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Change the statues for zombies.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The same issue applies to most of the game's ho-hum zombie cast.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Filler can, in fact, become a bit of a zombie substance in your face.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
  • Any movie with teenagers now has to have a vampire, a zombie or a werewolf.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 17 Apr. 2025
  • There’s nobody who ever wants to be a zombie.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Zombie games have been around for a while, but zombie game studios are new.
    Julie Muncy, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The aliens have tagged the adults of the world with a device that leaves them in a zombie-like state.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
  • The man walked, zombie-like, toward the two cops, Vervloet said.
    oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The same can be said if the zombie worm Osedax goes missing from the ocean floor.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The problem is that the top of her cake slice collapsed like a wet roof in a zombie movie.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For more pulse-pumping thrillers, here are 28 of the best zombie films.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But what exactly is a zombie house?
    Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Pluribus appears to be a zombie story.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The models skulked through The Box like zombies from a past life.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Kevin Feige was a fan of the comics and the zombie genre in general.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025

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