apparition

Example Sentences

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Described as a "Glasgow ghost story", the new script sees Lex suddenly faced with his dead brother's resurrection, as a ghost, an apparition, or a reality - he does not know.

From BBC

Even the audience, suddenly aware of enacting an unexpected pas de deux with an apparition, collaborates in creating consciousness of vernacular bodily actions.

From Los Angeles Times

An apparition haunts a family’s home in the supernatural Netflix comedy “We Have a Ghost.”

From New York Times

In "Shrinking" Jason Segel's widower sees his lost wife from time to time, but they're outlines of memories, not true apparitions.

From Salon

“She wasn’t greeted. She was beheld, like a religious apparition. Emotions verged on rapture.”

From Washington Post