werewolves

Cultural  

1. Legendary human beings who are magically transformed into wolves. Werewolves supposedly prowl at night, devouring babies and digging up corpses, and cannot be killed with ordinary weapons. They are particularly associated with the full moon.

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Example Sentences

AI is essential for the popular romantasy genre where fantastical elements, from medieval castles to werewolves and fairies are common.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Brandy Carlton, one of Torres’s first customers, buys the biggest package every year and sometimes incorporates a theme like werewolves or skeletons into the design.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Renowned as a queen of literary horror — her stories brim with ghosts, werewolves, zombie infants — here she reveals a realist side, journalistic yet intimate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

“An Earth with climate change and nuclear war and, like, zombies and werewolves is still a way better place than Mars,” they write.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

“Er — aren’t there — aren’t there supposed to be werewolves in the forest?” he added as they took their usual places at the back of Lockhart’s classroom.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling