Specter in example sentence

Still, the specter that haunts me is the same – ordinary people facing off against an autocrat’s airpower and well-armed soldiers, counting on the free world to protect them against massacre after we have applauded and bolstered their bravery with our words.

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The specter of mass starvation loomed.

There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase of the Crusades and arrives on the rocky shore of Sweden, only to find the specter of death waiting for him, Mr. Teszler sat in the dark with his fellow students.

So from 2007 to 2015, Risen lived under the specter of going to federal prison.

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