How to Use poltergeist in a Sentence

poltergeist

noun

• For their part, Hill and Sheldon have never seen any poltergeists in any Dark Harbor mazes.
  — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 29 July 2017
• Like a poltergeist, a Boggart is not and never has been truly alive.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 Apr. 2018
• While three of the poltergeists insist on causing mayhem, Kat befriends Casper, a lonely child spirit.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• Poltergeist was written by Steven Spielberg and and released to great success in 1982.
  — Arlene Washington, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Aug. 2017
• There was something about Reitman’s film and approach that was just lightning in a bottle — or a poltergeist in a ghost trap.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2022
• Of course, historic hotels have quirks that can range from tiny bathrooms — most of these hotels were built in the days before indoor plumbing, after all — to poltergeists.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• Because there is no Poltergeist without this thing at 1:49.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2015
• For about 20 years, the ultrasounds that were part of prenatal care showed a scratchy black-and-white image that looked like an old TV when the rabbit ears fell over and the poltergeist was trying to talk to you.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 May 2018
• Ed acquiesces, until the church calls them overseas to England to look into the Enfield poltergeist of 1977.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• Like some kind of Newtonian poltergeist, gravity spilled nails, tipped boards over the edge and tugged my power cord to the ground, forcing me down and up my ladder over and over.
  — Logan Ward, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2017
• The case of the Seaford poltergeist went national and Life Magazine published an article about it.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• The third installment in the series about Mario’s not-so-heroic brother vacuuming up poltergeists in a quest to find his brother is coming sometime next year.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
• Your story about an unearthly black dog or a benevolent poltergeist may entertain me or even give me a chill.
  — Jess Zimmerman, The Cut, 31 Oct. 2017
• Far away in New York, a young man hired to watch the poltergeist-attracting glass box is distracted by a latte delivery, which leads to another bloodbath.
  — Viv Groskop, Newsweek, 30 May 2017
• But according to some users, Ring sometimes fails to sound the bell, or does so after a substantial delay, or even absent any visitor, like a poltergeist.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• The Ring is one of the biggest horror films of our generation, and the lead poltergeist, Samara, is destined to haunt our dreams (and potentially dimension-crossing TV screens) for the rest of time... or at least the next 7 days.
  — Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2017
• An American Indian helps a broke and homeless family, once again prey to a poltergeist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• In this horror-comedy, a dead couple haunting their country residence enlist the help of a poltergeist named Beetlejuice to rid their home of the Deetz family.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Their books wised me up to an invisible poltergeist in world events: the feverish infatuation of one straight man for another.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• Both have reportedly claimed that a Skinwalker ranch poltergeist followed them home.
  — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 27 June 2023
• In the first episode, a traveling salesman documents a poltergeist using his cell phone during his motel stay, but he is soon possessed by the spirit of a murderer – and finds himself in need of an exorcism.
  — Katey Clifford, oregonlive, 12 July 2020
• In 1974, single mother-of-three Doris Bither claimed to have experienced poltergeist activity: strange odors, objects falling from shelves by themselves, and weird lights.
  — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2022
• Vibrations from the subway line, buried below, periodically pass through the rooms like commuting poltergeists.
  — Ben Widdicombe, New York Times, 24 June 2017
• By catching her poltergeist, Harriet performs an exorcism on her own fear.
  — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2019
• Both films focus on a different poltergeist case from the files of real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 2 Oct. 2017
• But renovations are also haunted by a different kind of poltergeist.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 4 Aug. 2022
• Could this energy, the kind that is projected, perceived, and exchanged, yet purportedly impossible to measure, have somehow spun the monitor’s compass, like a poltergeist or a solar flare?
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• In Shippy’s field, those experts can be psychic mediums, demonologists or a member of the clergy, depending on whether the entity of concern is a human spirit, a poltergeist or something demonic, Shippy said.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2020
• The threat narrative was a brilliant bit of framing, turning a story of poltergeist hunters battling a cabal of demon-believers into a national security issue.
  — Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
• The officer’s roommate experienced what can only be described as poltergeist phenomena—mostly books flying off shelves—serious enough that the police were called.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024