Example Sentences

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Why, man, if I were superstitious, it would seem positively spookish.

From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood

Even as he looked up there, he could hear a spookish grating that seemed to symbolize the spirit of the place.

From The Soul of a Child by Björkman, Edwin

It's her manner of speaking of spookish things, Mr. Singleton.

From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith

"Then it isn't—Nothing spookish, uncle Phaeton?" ventured Waldo, in slightly unsteady tones.

From The Lost City by Badger, Jos. E. (Joseph Edward)