Example Sentences

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The former director of national intelligence, now 77, was born and raised in the world of spookery.

From Washington Post • May 22, 2018

In the annals of British spookery, who could surpass his sang froid?

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2015

But more than a dead-on horror show, it’s a homage to cinematic spookery.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2011

His father was a spiv, at school he felt like a secret agent infiltrating the upper classes, and writing was a response to his growing sense of the futility of spookery.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2010

Better tell this story of yours to the submarines, for we Know there was no such wreck, and none of your spookery.

From A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by Clarke, George Herbert