How To Use Spook In A Sentence

Which neatly brings us to Humans, a new spooky drama about artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
They can see hooks hanging out from the baitfish in clear water and they'll spook easily if they can see the bait isn't swimming just right.
I managed to get "Spook" on bookcrossing, so I can now put some other book on my Christmas wish list - I just got my new copy of "Pages" so I'm going to be spoiled for suggestions! Spook/Ghost Hunters (copy)
Perhaps the spookiest spin is yet to come. Times, Sunday Times

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However, now that the digest is finished (until next month), Spooky's is making me go Outside today to see my neurologist, because the seizure was that bad. "We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
Growing concern that the crisis would now spread to other vulnerable nations such as Portugal and Spain also spooked traders. Times, Sunday Times
Generally, though, this is mainstream music with a spooky gown hastily thrown over it. Times, Sunday Times
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
That spooked the horse because his head and ears picked up and he let out a shrill whinny.
The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
If anyone's interested in gifting Spooky and me with the distractions that help to make this existence bearable, in the form of Solstice gifts, we have both updated our Amazon wish lists. "I'm living in an age that calls darkness light..."
The next note seems to suggest he was initially thinking of this as something quite spooky. The Sun
A hunter of ghosts since his late teens, 35-year-old Taylor says interest in spooks, specters and other spiritual what-not is greater than ever.
Investors have been spooked by the credit crunch and the uncertainty over the future of Northern Rock. Times, Sunday Times
I'm easily spooked by odd people but she seems genuine and kind. Times, Sunday Times
The state was characterized as a 'metaphysical spook' by the pluralists.
Halloween is a spooky and scary night . People dress up in the Hallween.
‘The spooks and their uniformed agencies are both part of a smokescreen to divert attention from the real culprits,’ he said.
Jigsaw has locked a bunch of strangers in a spooky old house with nerve gas slowly killing them off.
He believes that by scaring a horse, such as sacking them out incorrectly, snubbing, or tying a scary object to the saddle to where the horse has no means of escape will lead to a nervous or spooky horse.
Really, Holmes, I would swear there is something spooky or supernatural about cats.
Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them). This week's new events
Ongoing geopolitical tensions and a rise in oil prices also played a part in spooking investors.
On the fifth and possibly spookiest episode so far we get to learn more about dishy doctor Jack.
She is used to the cats using the cat flap, so she must have heard something that spooked her. Times, Sunday Times
A horror story's got to spook you and intrigue you.
Yet experts warn it may be spooked by the slump in sterling and weaker economic prospects. Times, Sunday Times
There are some spooky goings-on in this Halloween episode of the family comedy. The Sun
Then something spooked the pair. Christianity Today
Urban myths are the stuff of nightmares; the stories people tell to spook each other, such as the two lovers in a remote lane, at a time when an escaped mental patient is on the loose.
A chain of spooky coincidences brings a friend back into your life. The Sun
This creates a rather spooky atmosphere and because of the many camera angles gives the impression that you are being watched.
Do buyers have any idea why so many people are spooked by the number 13? Times, Sunday Times
Hey, don't dismiss it as another horror film with a bit of spooky stuff, a gory hand, a falling chandelier.
Burke hooks Clayton in by suggesting that his father, who died under mysterious circumstances 10 years earlier, may actually have been a CIA spook as well.
‘When I saw the Mexican army up on the hill there and there I was in my full rig - with my flintlock rifle - it got kind of spooky,’ he added.
I find the chub are often shoaled up in numbers from ten to forty fish and providing you don't spook them you can often make a big catch.
There was a considerable amount of equine rebellion as horses spooked, bolted and whirled.
New keyboardist Per Wiberg is the band's secret weapon, his piano, organ, and mellotron giving the album a lush, spooky atmosphere.
Like a lot of lefties spooked by recent unwholesome political successes by the American right, I'm angry and feeling rhetorically confrontational these days, but violence is not the way to express it.
Now under the influence of a homemade hallucinogenic substance, Oscar is making another impression altogether whether he's singing and smiling gleefully, which is spooking the guests at such a somber affair, or threatening to jump from the rooftop (while naked, of course) because he mistakenly thinks that Elaine is cheating on him. Crosswalk.com - Home
Conte's robotlike bugs have a distinctly spooky look, conjuring the frequent sci-fi fear about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the planet. Dr. Terminator: The Prosthetics Designer Who Makes Sci-Fi Sculptures
Kathryn jumped and the gelding spooked as well, shying a few paces to the left and dragging Kathryn with him.
Jez Butterworth's new play (only his fourth) at the Almeida is a spooky tale of mid-life crisis and adultery in the suburbs, where the trees whisper strange messages, nightmares are rife and people think their neighbours are ghouls at the garden barbecues. Undefined
The picture is best when it makes fun of the pompous self-importance of spooks, and dares to portray the political and military establishment as an empire of idiots.
Her cell phone goes off and spooks Stevie's steed.
Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
But the new Chancellor must beware: arbitrary taxes on one group of business people spook all business people. Times, Sunday Times
The brutal twists of Spooks bode well. Times, Sunday Times
That sparked one of the few signs of rebellion at a hospital where the administration has moved gingerly to avoid spooking doctors.
Spooks's dialogue is so bad that it is almost poetic. Times, Sunday Times
Will you shut up about ghosts! You always scare me with that spooky talk!
I think it spooked people, and we had to cancel a day's filming until it all settled. The Sun
After all, it's fun to visit a world much spookier than our own, return ticket safely in hand. Halloween reading: What's the freakiest book of them all?
Then they layer on morbid lyrics, vapory and spooky harmonies and bursts of organ or the peeling of chimes. Low's Hypnotic New Album: 'Drums and Guns'
A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
One flash of my strobe spooks it and I'm back to stalking.
Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf runner-up Spook Express suffered a compound dislocation of her left fetlock joint near the finish of the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on November 25 and had to be euthanized.
There are some spooky goings-on in this Halloween episode of the family comedy. The Sun
The system that gives prominence to the Venturas, Trumps and Buchanans, and some of the parlour spooks contending for the Republican nomination, may seem weird.
The smoky melody to the ensuing Ruins makes Jack Wyllie's sax more like a stringed instrument crossed with a trumpet, its quivering vibrato spooky but turning more guttural and free-jazzy as the backbeat pushes on. Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
The spooky drama moves to a new home on E4 for its ninth series. The Sun
Of course, the money's not going back to the stock market, which spooks the central bankers.
The Pentagon vigorously opposes that recommendation, but even a rookie spook can figure out that big changes are in the air.
She is used to the cats using the cat flap, so she must have heard something that spooked her. Times, Sunday Times
The recent string of intelligence failures has provoked calls for creating a Director of National Intelligence who would have broad oversight over all spooks.
Romance is a little spooky when you realise you can read a partner's thoughts. The Sun
Although Tuesday's interest rate hike spooked global markets, they quickly recovered from what analysts described as a kneejerk reaction by traders. China's economy slows in Q3
It has got a very spooky feel. The Sun
The EPA sanitization is because sheeple really are sheeple, and the Gubbermint don’t want to spook the flock. Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist
The old 1970s TV recordings of his stories are worth downloading if you haven't seen them, although perhaps the most atmospheric way to experience one of his masterly bits of spookery is to go to one of actor Robert Lloyd Parry's superb solo performances as I did in January. A terrifying Christmas in prospect
Seriously, yesterday's events really spooked, depressed and upset me.
Which seems - forgive the pun - a bit spooky. Times, Sunday Times
However, the outline of this classic 1960s roadster will look spookily familiar even to those who may have never seen one before, thanks to an inspired bit of plagiarism on the part of the designers of the best sportster of the 1990s.
Spook had graduated in Forestry and after a few years timber cruising for a paper company north of Bangor, decided marking stands for pulpwood had him in the right place for the wrong purpose. The Warden
Apparently I was wasting time that I could have been spending in the pub – I wish I had known that at the time on January 24, 2010 at 3: 07 pm buster as a probationer I wnt to a body hanging in a tree in a wooded area early January, the winter had stripped all leaves and greenery from the trees and it looked spooky a body silhouted against a grey sky. The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Don't let the repoter spook you, and you have to behave urbanely.
It made sense to see that they'd cozied themselves within a personal urban pine forest to watch paired kids parade past in colorful and spooky garb.
The brutal twists of Spooks bode well. Times, Sunday Times
What has people like Barney Frank spooked is the fact that the voters of his very liberal state clearly voted in an election focused on HCR and voted “No.” Matthew Yglesias » Panic! at the Caucus Meeting
Do the spooks know something that we don't? The Sun
Despite its beauteous flowers, the cape primrose, or streptocarpus, has always rather spooked me when viewed in isolation. Times, Sunday Times
Well after last week's spooky coffee machine imbroglio, when both my coffee maker at work, and the one at home, blew up on the same day… it was time to buy replacements.
It isn't just the ill-timed expansion that's spooking investors.
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Yet the sight of such attention to education also spooked me. Times, Sunday Times
The brutal twists of Spooks bode well. Times, Sunday Times
Nonetheless, the spooky harmonies create a wash that flows over the slight acoustic lilts, creating a very pretty pop moment.
They were spooked, but found a way to manage him.
It is only two lines long, but its melody, in spooky mode IV, is filled with undulations which remind one of the journey of the Magi. "We have seen his star in the east"
The novice wreck diver will not be spooked, as no torch is required inside much of this wreckage.
The result is spooky disco like this song and the absolute stormer "Are You Anywhere?" which is also included on the new DC compilation Death Before Distemper. Music (For Robots): September 2006 Archives
People make mistakes thinking that if you light it spookily, it's noir.
MIRRORS (2008, Fox, R, $30) - Here's yet another Asian horror remake that fails to capture the slippery spookery of the original. Latest News
Beam's overdubbed harmonies, delivered in a repetitive cadence, are spooky without being forbidding, bringing Low's early work to mind, if only in pace and tone.
Singer Kirsty Yates' vocals and spooky lyrics provide the strongest bridge between Earwig past and present.
If his double faults had spooked him, those winners were a shot in the arm. Times, Sunday Times
Beachwood – Beachwood Beach is about to get a little bit spookier, thanks to the work of one local Eagle Scout. 2010 March 26 « Beachwood Historical Alliance
There are events ranging from tame spooks for tinies to adult terror nights. The Sun
But the new Chancellor must beware: arbitrary taxes on one group of business people spook all business people. Times, Sunday Times
BRITISH spooks have been cleared of snooping on people's emails and the websites they visit. The Sun
Next, three spooky tales featuring the family. The Sun
It's one of the spookiest shows on the box. The Sun
Irritated, he grabs the bridle on one of the mules spooking it and causing it to throw its rider.
We find intelligence and life spooky because they maintain a precarious state far from equilibrium.
Judge Steve Evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one bit.
The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
Do buyers have any idea why so many people are spooked by the number 13? Times, Sunday Times
The production design of the spaceship itself is otherworldly and spooky.
It does not look out of place: the dark sleeve design features spooky silhouettes instead of the bespectacled schoolboy who grins from covers in Britain.
The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
There's something wrong with the dusty old ranch house, though, as strange sounds and spooky visions begin to haunt the crooks.
In any organisation, what spooks people most is the fear that there is actually no plan at all. Times, Sunday Times
But seeing it lying there is still slightly spooky. Times, Sunday Times
Another exercise in sublimely spooky, Gothy electro from the recent Matador signees. Singles file: Nicki Minaj, Crystal Castles, U.S. Royalty
Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
But the sombre peace is shattered when a bomb blast is heard shuddering in the distance and the spooks must answer the call of duty.
A trip to a deserted carnival turns up a team of spooks intent on scaring everyone away.
Left to the spooks, generals and diplomats, that might be the preferred option. Times, Sunday Times
I snorkelled because the sharks were in shallow water and seemed to be spooked by the noise of scuba bubbles. Times, Sunday Times
The reigning Wimbledon champion has recounted a spooky episode in which he once awoke to find a hotel maid stroking his arm. Times, Sunday Times
I'm easily spooked by odd people but she seems genuine and kind. Times, Sunday Times
The top Dublin radio station commissioned magician Keith Barry to wow the crowd of loyal listeners with his freakishly spooky illusionist abilities…
Otherwise, the spookiest thing about the returned — apart from them being undead — is that the light flickers as they pass. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, classification is why he says he wants to speak to the spooky senate comities behind bug proof closed doors in the first place! Think Progress » NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities
Seen at night, the structure became quite spooky.
The source may, more importantly, be double-crossing the spooks.
He was fluent in Arabic and many dialects - an invaluable skill in his shadowy world of spies and spooks. Times, Sunday Times
Spooky was in Wakefield most of the day, getting a tooth filled, and didn't get home until well after dark. 8.8
New tenants moved in a few years ago but they are said to be unworried about the house's spooky past.
A lip-reading spook may be following an outdoor conversation through binoculars.
The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
They're all ex-Air Force and Navy elint spooks, 'Clark said. The Sum of all Fears
After skiing along spookily quiet floodlit trails, you may be gasping for a pint to wash down your fondue with, but if the price of a pint isn't enough to put you off drinking here, the thought of having to ski back home in the dark may well be.
Which neatly brings us to Humans, a new spooky drama about artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
The ancients called these human shadows, shades; modern children and nursemaids call them ghosts and spooks; and each such shade is but an eidolon.
BRITISH spooks have been cleared of snooping on people's emails and the websites they visit. The Sun
This week online clairvoyant Graham Dare provides answers to two spooky spirit sightings.
And he is, after all, the archetypal spy; a spook's spook and a master of dirty tricks and dirty wars.
It almost seems too emotionally manipulative for a horror show, it doesn't truly rely on scares or spookiness just loss and pain and the suggestion of mental illness.
The violins send you to a spooky gothic period and the guitar adds substance to the track.
All politicians need to understand that uncertainty spooks investors and it is the consumer who bears that cost. Times, Sunday Times
Organisers are liaising with the locals to make sure pilots don't land on crops, and the roar of the balloon's burners doesn't spook sheep and cattle.
It would look at the overlap between crime, business and spookery. Times, Sunday Times
It made sense to see that they'd cozied themselves within a personal urban pine forest to watch paired kids parade past in colorful and spooky garb.
Generally, though, this is mainstream music with a spooky gown hastily thrown over it. Times, Sunday Times
Must be outgoing, enthusiastic, enjoy long walks in spooky places and you can’t be afraid of the dark (let’s me out.) Ghost Hunters Wanted : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
Everyplace from the village proper to the fancy beach houses north of the village was spookily deserted and desolate. Magical Road Less Traveled
It will no longer be ‘spooky’ if it is a spacious area of grass, flat or hilly, with flowers blooming everywhere and trees regularly planted in rows to mark out the blocks of graves.
The village is unpeopled, which makes it spooky.
Two years later, the gang reunited at the Spooky Island amusement park, where vacationing college kids were getting mysteriously zombified.
The effect is uncannily scary and spooky - you can almost hear the bones rattling.
Oh, and on the haunted house ride you can now shoot the spooks with ray guns.
It's not the most appropriate time to review a restaurant with a spooky theme, but I decided not to wait until Halloween as The Witches is definitely worth visiting more than once a year.
Then, off to the photo lab, and I developed the two rolls of film (woot, they both came out fine!) and then(insert spooky music here) went to make some prints.
Workplaces real and imaginary are explored in Robert Pinsky's Triangle Factory, Charles Simic's spookily empty warehouse, and Lorine Niedecker's poet's "condensery. Labor Day Poems: The Poetry Foundation Favorites
Early Tuesday evening, after Spooky and I picked Sonya up at the train depot, the three of us stopped off at Myopic Books in Wayland Square. "Je nage, mais les sons me suivent."
A great moment comes when he meets his father for the first time, which coincides spookily with a visit from Renee.
Steel leaders serve no purpose but to spook panfish, and baubles and beads on a leader only worsen the situation.
The Studio will be transformed into one of Harrogate's spookiest venues for the true story of an ill-fated Victorian family.
Anything that can grow in the dark is a bit spooky. The Sun
Experience the scariest night of the year in the spooky surroundings of Lancaster Castle.
Playing 21 shots and then getting brain damage from a tumble down the stairs is a terribly, terribly shitty way to celebrate a birthday. spookyu Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia
For instance, stretches of river where the popular approach is to stalk fish with big naturals such as slugs and lobworms, often finds chub spooking should such morsels be dropped into the vicinity of the fish.
I waspersonally concerned about this because while I had a hooky one-line for my own manuscript — one that implied action and had a certain spooky promise to it — I knew that it didn’t really capture the emotional flavor of the women’s fiction story I’m writing. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Secrets of the Silver Screen: Irony
The show is titled “Jimmy Big Time” and it is a tongue-in-cheek peek at an outdoor anti-hero; a relatively clueless dolt who spooks game, mangles equipment and generally makes a fool of himself. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Although Tuesday's interest rate hike spooked global markets, they quickly recovered from what what analysts described as a kneejerk reaction by traders. The Guardian World News
Profile of SAIC -- former internet domain monopoly is the invisible spook WalMart Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives
Spook ( ghost ) writers are planted and recruited in politics the media etc.
Already shell-shocked at their team's loss, they were vulnerable and "spooked" at the side of the road when Caps centre (and scorer of their only goal in that final game) Brooks Laich pulled up and proceeded to change the tyre. Authorities' anti-hooligan move causes a stir in France
Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky. "...moments before it spat its rain down on me."
Detective Harris, to what do I owe the pleasure of you spooking my friends away?
She timed her telling so that the cloud engulfed us just as she got to the spooky bit. Times, Sunday Times
Spooky corpse-like kids in period costumes pop out at the first available opportunity.
The Writers Guild's current contract with the TV networks and movie studios expires at midnight on Halloween, a spooky moment of disharmonic convergence which has created an industry-wide anxiety that feels eerily like a sequel to Y2K. Eric Williams: Creative Differences
After work, we drove down to Warwick and picked up Spooky's belated birthday present, a new turntable so that she can begin digitizing the squillion or so pieces of vinyl she has stored at her parents. Glurk (A Love Story)
Imagine if you can, one of my colleagues, some drug addled 19-year old, coming off a methedrine binge filing books in one of the darkest, spookiest places on earth when suddenly a hand grabs his ankle from the darkness below. LIBRARIANS ON THE RADIO
So get crafty and spook your neighbourhood! Times, Sunday Times
British spooks are furious with US tech giants for failing to flag up terror chat. The Sun
Grey clouds rising from sticks of incense hang in the air, spookily. Greg Mitchell: Under a Mound in Hiroshima: A City of Ashes the Size of Santa Fe
Angela Lansbury picked up her second nomination as a supporting actress for another spooky film, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The word Halloween, as you may well recall, is derived from two words: "hallow," meaning "to bless" -- and nothing says blessing like a gooey green spook -- and "een," the noise your mouth makes when you're prying the caramel out of your molars. Patricia Draznin: B00! SCARY is in the Dangling Eye of the Beholder
To me, a cold chill in one corner of a spooky house is a draughty window, not the spirit of someone's dead great, great, great aunt come back to haunt the living.
Despite a tendency to over-dramatise, this is yet another supernatural spook-fest which will chill and entertain - and hopefully won't prove too offensive to the real-life inspirations.
Not the police, nor the politicians, nor the prying eyes of the security spooks. The Sun
A separate nighttime chase has a built-in televised innocence, but there is a spooky quality to it. Weekend Weirdness Review: John Carpenter’s Elvis Starring Kurt Russell | /Film
They said that he only came out at night to eat cats and squirrels, and he was the local spook.
In our time — in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia — no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick, author of Clans of the Alphane Moon and dozens of other books, and inspirer of some of Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report. 03.04
In Britain the stock market is now spooked by worries over the financial strength of UK life assurers amid fears that they may have to close to new business.
Spooky spotted a Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia), which was a new one for both of us. "The tides will come and go, witnessed by no waking eye."
People are spooked, there is a feeling that there are some surprises out there. Times, Sunday Times
Never punish your horse for spooking. Instead, relax...and take a second to remember that he was born with a blind spot (and with many, many predators).
On the other side, was a set of three mannequin dummies, all dressed up in spooky attire.
I think it spooked people, and we had to cancel a day's filming until it all settled. The Sun
Kat thought it would be "spookier" to replace the 100-watt bulb with a 15-watt bulb, so my time was spent staring at small, dim blobs of pink costumes and wondering whether they were supposed to be Tinkerbell, the Pink Panther, or perhaps a ballet outfit. Trick Or Treat Or Bum
Demoralized by the McCarthy witch hunts at the State Department, the embassy staff feared Donovan was invading with a planeload of OSS spooks to take over the diplomatic mission. Wild Bill Donovan
The three spooked lighthouse keepers are very fine. Times, Sunday Times
Ian Hunter mentioned Luther Grosvenor from old record label mates at Island, Spooky Tooth.
Fears over the health of the Chinese economy spooked investors. Times, Sunday Times

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