How to Use undead in a Sentence

undead

adjective
  • Turns out you don’t have to suffer rotting flesh to be undead.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As older narrators pass on, the undead host will only grow.
    — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • People are turned into wolves, there are ogres and undead creatures of the sea who lure others to their demise.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
  • Unless critics swoon, audiences aren’t showing up to see this undead couple in action.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In this brutal continuation, a team of surviving superheroes faces off against undead versions of their former allies.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Hiroyuki Sanada plays Scorpion, an undead warrior hellbent on avenging the deaths of him and his family at the hands of Sub-Zero.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • Also on the trail is a gangster named Clyde (John Magaro), who’s been sent to redo the job of rubbing out the mysteriously undead Ida.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Jacob Anderson tears into the undead flesh of the enemies who murdered his daughter, channeling his pain and fury into a series of increasingly gruesome vampiric assassinations.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The sequel, which started shooting in Canada in September and is now in post, brings back Ry Barrett as Johnny, a vengeful, undead killer who embarks on a bloody rampage after a group of teens steal a golden locket that awakens his spirit.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Undoubtedly, Maggie Gyllenhaal means Frank’s resuscitation of Ida to represent a further exploitation of a heroine who, undeniably, received rough treatment during her actual pre-undead state.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The nature getaway soon takes a terrifying turn for Liz (Tatiana Maslany) and and her boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland), as Liz begins seeing visions of undead spirits and Malcolm’s true intentions are revealed.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The trailer showcases tons of undead violence, dismembered limbs and the official Marvel debut of Blade Knight, a Moon Knight and Blade variant who slices up an undead Ghost from the Thunderbolts in a flashy display of swordsmanship.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025

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