phantom

Example Sentences

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I thought it might have been a phantom caravan riding behind us.

From Literature

Many locals and visitors believed the eerie tales of lights flickering on and off during the night, dishes falling on their own, and phantoms in the bathroom mirror.

From Literature

Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns.

From Los Angeles Times

A winter of epic snow and rain had brought California’s “phantom lake” back to life — and threatened towns and farms in the process.

From Los Angeles Times

“It reveals the choice of magic as the most suitable ritual technology to manage death anxiety and phantom menaces.”

From New York Times