How to Use zombie in a Sentence

zombie

noun
  • His students usually sat there in the classroom like zombies.
  • If I don't go to bed early I'll be a zombie tomorrow.
  • Some zombies up in a tree nest.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • There will be zombies, of course.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Tech be damned, zombies still want to eat brains.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Jan. 2026
  • And there’s no way to know if this bill is dead or a zombie.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hell, even the side-piece zombie mode felt meaty enough to be its own meal.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There are fireballs of zombies on the loose.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This will happen even if said zombie is very slow and far away.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So, what’s a zombie fighter to do?
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • More to the point, Julian is a zombie.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Change the statues for zombies.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There’s nobody who ever wants to be a zombie.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The same can be said if the zombie worm Osedax goes missing from the ocean floor.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The problem is that the top of her cake slice collapsed like a wet roof in a zombie movie.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For more pulse-pumping thrillers, here are 28 of the best zombie films.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But what exactly is a zombie house?
    — Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Pluribus appears to be a zombie story.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The models skulked through The Box like zombies from a past life.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Kevin Feige was a fan of the comics and the zombie genre in general.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But things get weird when Kamala sees flickers of zombie faces in the crowd.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Watching any zombie movie when things are bad in the world is very instructive.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In the movie, the virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That means slashers, zombie movies, and body horror all get serviced here.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Gives sound to solitude, a room tone her zombie double conjures.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • If the flip can't meet Dainard's standards, then those zombies remain buried.
    — Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Pecola’s parents are in essence zombies—the walking dead.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The problem is that Soo-ah (Choi Yoo-ri) is a zombie.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Is there an appetite among fans for a real-life Marvel zombie?
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • To see some of the zombies walking around the base camp in hair and makeup and wardrobe was magical.
    — Kia D. Goosby, Vanity Fair, 25 Apr. 2026

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