Sentence examples for a spectre hung from inspiring English sources

The Clarks, the couple behind Moro restaurant and its cookbooks, were organising a Sunday lunch for 20 friends, and as they sat down to figs and chard and chilli and potato, a spectre hung over them like a finger of frost.

A spectre hangs over these places — the spectre of failure.

Just as events in Greece haunt conversations about British politics about now, so a foreign spectre hung over the Wilson government: the 1973 Pinochet coup against the socialist Allende government in normally democratic Chile.

Still, Hooked on Classics' naff spectre hung around the project.

If there is a spectre that hangs over this squad then it is England's record in the past two European Championships.

And its confluence with the miniseries confirmed, if there were ever a real doubt, that the story of the trial will be a spectre that hangs over national affairs through the twenty-first century and probably beyond.

A: We hung up.

Westminster systems may in theory be designed to operate smoothly under conditions of polarisation, but in fact over the past two years the canonical Westminster countries Britain, Canada and Australia have all found themselves struggling with the extraordinary spectre of hung parliaments.

A melancholy spectre certainly hangs over this line.

In 2012, Plummer wrote: "The real possibility of prison hung over Hendrix like a spectre ... a threat to his career and the cause of much brooding and rumination".

A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, the spectre of Margaret Thatcher.