apparition

Example Sentences

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Venus generally appears in the evening sky five times in an eight-year cycle, and the current apparition is the best for Northern Hemisphere viewers for this series.

From Washington Post

Knock Shrine is a historic Catholic pilgrimage site where locals in 1879 said they saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary.

From Washington Post

Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage there in 1979 to mark the centennial of the apparition.

From BBC

Described as a "Glasgow ghost story", the new script sees Lex suddenly faced with his dead brother's resurrection, as a ghost, an apparition, or a reality - he does not know.

From BBC

Even the audience, suddenly aware of enacting an unexpected pas de deux with an apparition, collaborates in creating consciousness of vernacular bodily actions.

From Los Angeles Times