wraithlike
Example Sentences
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Pale and wraithlike, Pattinson’s bummer of a Batman slugs and slashes his way through his crime-fighting duties, at one point introducing himself as Vengeance.
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022
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
“He felt that Jacqueline had been depicted as a mournful, wraithlike figure,” the Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman told Art News in 1982.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2015
There is, in short, something hollowed out in “Spectre”—a hint of something not quite there, as wraithlike as the title suggests.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
First two points of mast, then sails, transparent and wraithlike in the fog, then, as Kit strained her eyes, the looming hull, the prow, and the curved tail of a fish.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
