wraithlike
Example Sentences
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Though Ruthie did escape, and was away from her hometown for years, she has waited for release from its wraithlike grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Elsewhere, all you hear is the wraithlike swirl of a Juno-6 synth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
As the millennia go by, bristlecones become contorted and wraithlike.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
