phantasm

Example Sentences

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Even the implicit promise of a male-oriented community is a phantasm.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” begins when a faltering academic conjures up an imaginary phantasm of the early-20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

A hellish phantasm of a doe-human hybrid that will definitely stalk and kill you in a dream tonight?

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2019

“It’s like a gargoyle with weird green eyes that pulls on my hair or nibbles my ear”—he jerked his head away and smiled reprovingly at the phantasm.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

She wasn’t Sarai here, but this absurd tame phantasm of her mother.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor