Example Sentences

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"By Chance" pairs vampirish keys with a trap beat, which lets Swae and Jxmmi trade their manic flows for a blasé conversational cadence.

From The Verge • Aug. 15, 2016

It is, perhaps, a vampirish way to work, except that he seems to leave his collaborators more alive than he found them.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

Lowering your gaze and flashing a vampirish glare is not acting, it’s making faces.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2012

With a rakish smile, he jumped into “Love is the Drug,” giving the “r” in the final “drug” a vampirish roll.

From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 12, 2011

What, then, but some exotic emanation; some vampirish vapor such as Exeter rustics tell of as lurking over certain churchyards?

From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)