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

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

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

The smith stared at his son who stood wraithlike in that weird, dank mist.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin