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.
  • The streets of Kabul were like a scene from a zombie movie.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • But then, he was brought back to life and kept as a zombie at Vought.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • That was the case in the zombie failure of Bed Bath & Beyond.
    Bernard Condon, Fortune, 7 June 2024
  • Dre bangs on the basement door and then stands there like a zombie.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The same issue applies to most of the game's ho-hum zombie cast.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The adult zombie flies stalk adult bees and lay their eggs inside them.
    oregonlive, 3 July 2022
  • Snyder knows how to make a zombie movie—that's for damn sure.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2022
  • And is there any way for homeowners to fight the zombies?
    Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • That trash, on a long car ride in the middle of tablet zombie binge, will inevitably go on the floor.
    Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2021
  • On the other hand, the zombie heads in the sand, covered with crabs (food, Morgan!
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Her band joined in the fun as Frankenstein, a zombie, Swamp Thing, ghouls, and vampires.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Lila and Alex don’t want to watch zombie movies anymore.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2021
  • The Plaid is a zombie at the limit, with nothing coming up through the two girthy grips at the end of the steering yoke.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Back at the tree in present day, Negan kills a zombie with Lucille and falls to his knees — the ol’ girl just doesn’t have the same good vibes.
    Richard Rys, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2021
  • As Margaret points out, Mr. Williams goes through life like a zombie.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • With your hands straight out in front of you (like a zombie!), swing your right leg up toward your right hand.
    Jason Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Fecundity of the body doesn’t have to eat your brain like a zombie.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • The fate of a nation all rests in the hands of one man who managed to survive a deadly zombie virus.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 11 Feb. 2022
  • There are more than 30 ways to play — from bumper cars to paddle boats, zombie bowling to archery.
    Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
  • Last week's episode was Die Hard in the zombie apocalypse.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Here’s a stranger kind of mix-and-match zombie: pain-pleasure inverts.
    Philip Goff, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • The zombies have mutated, new human enclaves have sprouted up, and the UK is almost a complete no-go area.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The subsequent chemical leak seems to turn the old residents into zombies, who attack younger people from the town.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025

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