wraithlike

Example Sentences

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Throughout the July competency trial, the 20-year-old Dominguez sat wraithlike, pale, his unwashed hair a curtain in front of his eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018

“Chaos beckons,” Mr. Bartlett gently sings, but he’s belying the orderly intricacy of the music’s Minimalistic fabric of propulsive, gamelan-like bell tones, string-ensemble chords and pizzicati and wraithlike backing vocals, transparent yet rigorous.

From New York Times • May 18, 2018

Cunningham’s lens was ecumenical; he loved great dressers, and he didn’t discriminate between young and old, wraithlike and Venusian, high and low.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2016

Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan