Example Sentences

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These new horror movies offer scares from a global perspective, including an Indonesian witch, an Irish vampire, Canadian home invaders and an American family nightmare.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2021

In the movie, your character is shamed for not trying to subdue his home invaders.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021

That's why, for example, Shaun doesn't have special training that would give her an edge over the home invaders, as an earlier version of Ryan Engle's script called for.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2018

Wait Until Dark Kentwood Players present a revised version of Frederick Knott’s classic thriller about a blind woman besieged by home invaders.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2016

The running down, by her private steamer, of a few more inquisitive yachts in the Solent would be a hazardous experiment, if temporarily effective in keeping home invaders at bay.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various