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
The equine phantasm holds a sword in one hand while he dangles what looks like a lobster over the face of the sleeping man.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2017
She dissolved the phantasm like a moth at sunup, and slipped into its place.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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