wraithlike
Example Sentences
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This time around, the wraithlike Bill Skarsgård is our back-from-the-dead avenger.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024
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
As the millennia go by, bristlecones become contorted and wraithlike.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
“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
Smudge pots of incense released plumes of scented smoke that drifted, wraithlike, along the floor.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
