incorporeal

Example Sentences

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“It would mean that any criticism of the central government can be described as a terrorist act because the honor of India is its incorporeal property,” the court said in its bail order.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2023

Their physical bodies — and your own — get entangled with those pictorial references to bodily experience, bringing a ghostly, incorporeal picture home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022

They write: “A deity that rules communication is an incorporeal linguistic power. A modern conception of such might read: a force of language from outside of materiality.”

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

Seems we were both wrong: Elliot's faulty perception misled us, the audience, into believing Tyrell was also incorporeal.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2016

Invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur, Sarai slipped into their dreams, and what she discovered there, in the hours that followed, proved that the strangers were far from ridiculous.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor