Example sentences for: specter

How can you use “specter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Arlen Specter's remark yesterday on CNN that with the latest flap, the White House "may have crossed the line of obstruction of justice" is quoted by USAT and the WP . The Post points out that such tapes were ostensibly covered by congressional committee subpoenas going back to last January, while the WSJ adds that Senate investigators had previously been told that no such tapes existed.

  • Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's chief technology officer, conjures up the specter of a "Federal Bureau of Operating Systems."

  • The specter raised by common-law judging, Scalia says, is not the unelected judge determined to impose the values of an elite few upon the masses, but that old Tocquevillian villain, the tyranny of the majority.

  • News reports raise the specter of an HMO stampede to the door that could unravel the entire 6 million member Medicare HMO system.

  • This raises the specter of a slippery slope toward decriminalizing murder.


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