(n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(2) When Downing Street's ghouls come to inspect his wounds over the weekend, he seems likely to survive.
(3) Some are standard cemeteries, some are said to be a stomping ground for ghosts and ghouls – and, around the turn of the century, a number of them played host to Emma Stone .
(4) By failing to confront our ghouls – and their tabloid harpies – we merely let them haunt us again.
(5) Updated at 1.12am BST 1.10am BST Email It's that time of the year when ghosts, demons, witches and ghouls come out to play, and I'm not talking about Halloween.
(6) Yet now, with the Conservatives in the grip of their most awful ghouls, we have an opportunity without precedent to lay our own fears to rest.
(7) Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
(8) These are the ghouls swirling around this Christmas.
(9) The cheapest toys on the main list are the Monster High range of Ghouls Rule dolls, retailing at £22.99 each (£17.99 at Smyths Toys).
(10) The top 13 in full Cabbage Patch Kids, JAKKS Pacific, RRP £29.99 Furby, Hasbro, RRP £59.99 InnoTab 2, Vtech, RRP £84.99 Jake and the Neverland Pirates – Pirate Ship Bucky, Mattel, RRP £49.99 LeapPad 2, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £89.99 Lego Friends: Olivia's House, Lego, RRP £69.99 Lego The Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria, Lego, £68.99 Mike the Knight's Deluxe Glendragon Playset, Character Options, £29.99 Monster High Ghouls Rule Dolls, Mattel, RRP £22.99 My Moshi Home, Vivid Imaginations, RRP £39.99 Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Twister Dance, Hasbro, RRP £26.99 Web Shooting Spider-Man, Hasbro, RRP £34.99
(11) The Daily Telegraph has already responded to the semblance of a climate policy with a full front page picture of a masked ghoul, screaming “Horror Show”, because a “nightmare” was returning.
(12) In the fudge shop on the front, you can buy chocolate coffins, and there is of course the Dracula Experience , where for a few pounds you can creep through labyrinthine pitch-black passages and be scared out of your skin by students earning holiday cash dressed up as ghouls and revenants.
(13) All those unknown, bleary faces huddled in the dark: old men shrouded in blankets, mothers cradling wailing babies - it was a scene from one of those witches and ghouls fairytales she found so terrifying.