walking corpse

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Similar to a 'living corpse', a person who is barely alive or an undead creature (e.g., zombie).

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Examples (20)

  • The horror movie featured a horde of walking corpses rising from their graves.
  • After weeks of no sleep, he felt like a walking corpse.
  • After working 100 hours this week, I feel like a walking corpse.
  • The war veteran, haunted by memories, became a mere walking corpse.
  • He survived the illness, but for weeks he was just a walking corpse, devoid of energy.
  • She looked like a walking corpse after the devastating news.
  • In the eerie twilight, what appeared to be a walking corpse shuffled down the empty street.
  • Without his passion, he was just a walking corpse in his old job.
  • Since the tragedy, she has been a walking corpse, going through the motions of life with no emotion.
  • The famine victims were reduced to walking corpses.
  • The necromancer's spell turned the fallen soldier into a mindless walking corpse.
  • He dragged himself through life, a walking corpse with no hope.
  • After three sleepless nights studying for exams, the student was little more than a walking corpse.
  • The character in the horror movie was a literal walking corpse.
  • The soldiers returned from the front line, each one a gaunt walking corpse.
  • After a long illness, she was just a shadow of her former self, a walking corpse.
  • In the video game, you have to fight an army of walking corpses to reach the next level.
  • The once vibrant city was now a ghost town, its few remaining inhabitants like walking corpses.
  • Children huddled together, telling scary stories about a walking corpse that haunted the local cemetery.
  • His eyes were hollow, his movements slow; he was a walking corpse of his former self.