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Example sentences for: spook

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There's a legend about a place called "Spook Hill," where ghosts supposedly help push your car to the summit, and one about Confederate soldiers dumped in a well, and one about a mythical beast called the Snallygaster--part reptile, part bird, part octopus, with "huge jaws" and "razor sharp teeth."
Greenspan's speech, which dealt with the "fundamental sources of risk" and the limitations of the traditional risk-management models financial institutions use, did not spook an already nervous stock market because anyone actually read or listened to the speech.
Or perhaps he should take a cue from Ally McBeal 's Lucy Liu, who the Enquirer says once "did more than snuggle with a spook ...
(What happened to those traditional spook stomping grounds, Yale and Princeton?)
He makes a nice piece of change from being on TV appearing to know highly cool current spook stuff, but of course, it would be illegal if he did, much less if he spoke about it on TV.