wraithlike
Example Sentences
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Appearing wraithlike behind the glass, stairways in both wind over and around themselves like crinkly strands of DNA as they ascend full height.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Pale and wraithlike, Pattinson’s bummer of a Batman slugs and slashes his way through his crime-fighting duties, at one point introducing himself as Vengeance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022
Though Ruthie did escape, and was away from her hometown for years, she has waited for release from its wraithlike grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
There is, in short, something hollowed out in “Spectre”—a hint of something not quite there, as wraithlike as the title suggests.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
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
