phantasm

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

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

But “the next Bobby Fischer” is a phantasm, a mirage, a point on the horizon always receding, as it should, and the phrase itself should be exiled like its namesake was.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2018

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

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor