How to Use specter in a Sentence

specter

noun

• Droughts in the mid-1960s raised the specter of famine.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• This wasn’t the first time Wallace brought up the specter of 9/11.
  — Joe Silverstein, Fox News, 19 July 2022
• The specter of Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen loomed large.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• This does raise the specter of their cutting you off from the kids.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• The specter of world war is concerning, but the draft isn't.
  — Heather Ainsworth For Cnn, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
• The specter of Keynes, at this point in the story, is hiding in a closet.
  — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Chief among them, for the athletes and the future of the Games, is the specter of systemic doping.
  — Marisa Guthrie, WWD, 14 June 2024
• The specter of everything that happens in the last movie is there.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• Still, the specter of partisan bias shadowed the project.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• But a little more than a week into the new year, the specter of scandal reemerged.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• But even decades later, the specter of HIV never leaves him.
  — Joseph Osmundson, The Atlantic, 8 June 2022
• In fact, the specter of Nazism has always haunted the margins of this story.
  — Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• The specter of Sean Payton is no more now that he’s headed to Denver.
  — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
• The specter of a debt default is no longer unthinkable.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• And now, the specter of imminent full-fledged pop stardom.
  — Jim Greer, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2024
• With the specter of war crimes charges now hanging over the Israel-Hamas war, so too are questions.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• So in the words of every rapper faced with the ubiquitous specter of haters: Stay mad.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
• Even for the many who voted for him, the specter of this coalition has served as a rude awakening.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Cities frequently have used the specter of rising crime rates as reason to pass the rules.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
• In the space of just a few months, the specter of artificial intelligence has come to haunt the world.
  — Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The specter of a wider conflict hangs over debates about how far the West should go in supporting Ukraine.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• That specter alone could provoke the bond vigilante crowd.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• On the day of our second interview, the specter of a writers strike hovers.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 May 2023
• Shadows lengthened and slid up the walls like specters, and a chill descended on the temples.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
• John Lennon claimed to see a weeping woman; when he was murdered in front of the Dakota in 1980, Lennon’s own specter was added to the list.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 28 June 2022
• Even then, the specter of monetary worries still lingers.
  — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Libra/Diem, faced with the specter of a regulatory crackdown, had reached the end of the road.
  — Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2022
• For his part, Morris had a great time playing specter with one of the funniest casts on TV.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
• Rising oil prices, attributable to the war in Ukraine, have raised the specter of 1970s style stagflation.
  — Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• What once looked like a leisurely stroll to a division title now has the specter of collapse around it.
  — Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024