banshee

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Recent Examples of banshee He’s been a banshee for us since he’s been with us on the two-way and has provided not just the attitude, the toughness on the court, but he’s played some really good basketball for us. Khobi Price, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025 Does that explain why the Banshee label doesn’t depict an actual banshee? Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024 Zoom in: The Boston team's name gives a nod to the banshees described in Celtic folklore. Steph Solis, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025 Our ears are still ringing from watching fans become shrieking banshees upon realizing that one of her professional dancers was actually the NFL star. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for banshee
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banshee
Noun
  • Things become complicated when a popular rival boy band, The Saja Boys, are revealed to be demons.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Wilson himself was celebrated for his beautiful music and pitied for his demons.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • At least until quarter to 2, when Lindsay Lohan whorls through the door like a raspy chaos phantom.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • But does Chuck let this phantom haunt him into adulthood?
    Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Some titles are now out of print, but these classic horror stories are a great foray into the world of ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in the night.
    Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Despite those forty-three words, the ghoul that the North Carolina Freedmen’s Convention feared most had risen—caste preservationists debuted a new caste system.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • As for Huart, the multi-hyphenate has become one of the more exciting up-and-coming filmmakers in the genre realm and recently won the Midnight Short Jury Award at SXSW 2024 for his modern vampire story Transylvanie.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 June 2025
  • This vampire isn't interested in the blood that runs through your veins, though.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Even in areas where plaintiffs theoretically have power—say, in mass tort litigation—Gatsby’s ghost lingers.
    Aron Solomon June 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
  • On the big screen, he's taken on a wide range of roles, from the titular antihero in Hellboy (2019) and a not-so-jolly Santa Claus in Violent Night (2022) to a friendly ghost dad in We Have a Ghost (2023) and a former race car driver in Gran Turismo (2023).
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • This is a pen that is both weighty and lighthearted – fitting for the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, whose life of bonhomie and good cheer was disrupted by adventure and dragons and ring wraiths and war.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • The First Shadow was an effect as magical as the telekinetic wraiths emanating above the actors’ bodies.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the 2025 apparition of Mars has been one of the poorer and more distant ones in the planet's 15-to-17-year cycle of oppositions near and far.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 June 2025
  • There also might be a few Netflix apparitions, like the would-be Nancy Meyers comeback rom-com.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • That lady is really the aforementioned murderous hag (Meredith Binder), her false veneer of youthful beauty reinforced by a magic mirror’s flattering (if also caustic) topless female spirits, and sustained via grisly methods seemingly inspired by Elizabeth Bathory.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
  • Several get small charts offering ideas to inspire how the monster could be used, such as what strange price a hag might have for its secrets or what an owlbear might keep in its den beyond treasure.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Banshee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banshee. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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