wraith
Example Sentences
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A former New Yorker uprooted to the countryside, Grace suffers from a postpartum depression that makes her feel like like a dreary wraith.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
The original Beetlejuice, which starred Michael Keaton as an obnoxious wraith hired to help scare away a house's pretentious inhabitants, was released back in 1988.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2023
Tom Skerritt moves through “East of the Mountains” like a hobbled wraith.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2021
“In the final series of swift lifts, her foot seemed barely to touch the floor. It was the image that others have never matched, the airborne wraith who seems to fly out of a lithograph.”
From Washington Post • May 30, 2021
The assault slows as the last wraith circles us.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
