vampires

1. Originally part of central European folklore, they now appear in horror stories as living corpses who need to feed on human blood. A vampire will leave his coffin at night, disguised as a great bat, to seek his innocent victims, bite their necks with his long, sharp teeth, and suck their blood.

The most famous vampire is Count Dracula, from the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Example Sentences

I’ve been to high school football games that are more dangerous than what you see in most of D.C. — even late at night when the political vampires roam the dark alleys of Georgetown.

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Young adult comedies are best when the misery of high school is paired with other extreme types of terror — a plane crash, a supernatural mystery, vampires.

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But the building was built on an underground basement where vampires lived, and then they capture the pop star, and they kidnap her and make her work underground.

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“It’s the vampires that come out at night,” Griffin said.

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You’ve played one of the most popular vampires ever, and your prep for "Tarzan" was insane.

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