Example Sentences

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Medical journals occasionally publish speculative work on the biology of the lycanthropic transformation, but again, hard data are sparse.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2023

Likewise, one might run into haints, phantasmagorical flaming skulls, duppies, lycanthropic loups-garous and more.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

It was her authentic laugh, the one she reserved for friends like Nora: harsh, barking, nearly lycanthropic.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2021

A mother tries to keep her young son’s lycanthropic tendencies on the down-low in the supernatural thriller “Blood Moon” on a new “Into the Dark.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2021

One day as she was ranging the country in a fit of lycanthropic madness, she came upon two children who were plucking wild strawberries.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)