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.
  • 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
  • Her band joined in the fun as Frankenstein, a zombie, Swamp Thing, ghouls, and vampires.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • These zombie pumpkins are one spooky way to greet your Halloween guests.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
  • As well as zombies and horror, the new slate goes long on romance series.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • As is frequently the case after games, Whitlock marched through the Red Sox clubhouse with the slow, blocky gait of a zombie.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Much like the eternal zombie, the pork sandwich is back from the dead, and consumers are clamoring to get their hands on menu item.
    Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Players will be able to team up with other squads to fight zombie hordes in the largest Call of Duty zombies map yet.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Such is the natural result of eleven years of zombie mayhem.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But scientists wonder: Can the zombie cell buildup be stopped?
    Laura Ungar, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2022
  • And the 1978 movie has held up incredibly well over the years — much better than most of Romero’s other zombie epics.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Along with the help of some friends, Shaun fights off the invading zombies, while trying to keep his family safe.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Years later, Mark awakes from a coma in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, and well, his life didn’t turn out so great.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But he still gets recognized in public as a zombie killer.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
  • By trick or treat, Auburn ended the misery of its zombie football coach on Halloween.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The story turns on how to survive a zombie apocalypse at a local-store.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
  • How rising sea levels could create zombie towns around the U.S.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • And their enthusiasm, much like the zombie virus in the film-within-a-film, is infectious.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 30 July 2022
  • The soldiers died and have become walking zombies while monsters lurk around each room.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Joel’s brother Tommy, who’s set up a largely zombie-free life there, offers him a new pair of boots.
    Adrienne So, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But that all changes for the better when a charming zombie named Zed becomes a star football player.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 17 July 2023
  • Ellie spared her best friend, Riley, from life as a zombie with a single bullet in Episode 7.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Jimmy Doom was soaked and muddy after killing zombies all day in a driving rain.
    Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024

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