zombie
noun
(in Vodou)
zombies
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pluralof zombie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Shannyn De Arman of Massachusetts over Thanksgiving break found her second-grader crying in the bathroom, scared of zombies chasing children—something he’d seen on YouTube at school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The phrase was used to help describe the game's tense atmosphere, born from its fixed camera angles, forever encroaching zombies and a limited supply of ammunition to shoot them with.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
At first, the not-so-original idea that phones have turned children into zombies is a Romero-style parody of brain rot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Yet despite the local ecclesiastical authorities approving the scene, the installation in central Brussels has come under fire online since opening on Friday, with right-wing Belgian politician Georges-Louis Bouchez even comparing the figures to "zombies".
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
The color of zombies, a nation of zombies.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
