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

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

As the millennia go by, bristlecones become contorted and wraithlike.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

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

Smudge pots of incense released plumes of scented smoke that drifted, wraithlike, along the floor.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood