wraithlike

Example Sentences

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Throughout the July competency trial, the 20-year-old Dominguez sat wraithlike, pale, his unwashed hair a curtain in front of his eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

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

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

But when the others visit him, they recoil at the sight of its anxious wraithlike residents in the throes of Alzheimer’s and whisk him out of the place.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2012

Ash woke in the middle of the night from a dream of horses — tall, thundering white horses with foaming mouths and slender, wraithlike riders.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo