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
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
“Chaos beckons,” Mr. Bartlett gently sings, but he’s belying the orderly intricacy of the music’s Minimalistic fabric of propulsive, gamelan-like bell tones, string-ensemble chords and pizzicati and wraithlike backing vocals, transparent yet rigorous.
From New York Times • May 18, 2018
Cunningham’s lens was ecumenical; he loved great dressers, and he didn’t discriminate between young and old, wraithlike and Venusian, high and low.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2016
Smudge pots of incense released plumes of scented smoke that drifted, wraithlike, along the floor.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
