wraithlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
  • Ghost Tour: Take a night tour through the eerie streets of Bisbee, known for its haunted past and the ghostly tales of its mining days.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2025
  • Their love is reignited in the most unlikely form, but not everyone welcomes her return—especially March’s family, still unsettled by a ghostly presence that appeared after a factory worker’s death forced their business to close.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • To the casual observer, the data industry can seem incorporeal, its products conjured out of weightless bits.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The spiritual leader has not met a sitting US president since Barack Obama in 2016, after numerous visits to the White House since 1991.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 July 2025
  • Ostensibly intended to protect a church’s autonomy in choosing its spiritual leaders, the exception has since been stretched into a catch-all excuse to deny employees of religious schools all kinds of legal recourse.
    A.J. Schumann, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • In his music, the phrase takes on a spectral weight: five leaves left on a tree, trembling as summer slips into fall; five moments of clarity before sleep; five truths too delicate for morning.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
  • Each material, including pollutants, has a unique spectral signature that allows scientists to identify it.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, in too many formless episodes, Season 4 favors quiet solo scenes (Syd perfects a dish amid dramatic lighting and a haunting St. Vincent track, in a set piece that looks lovely but has nothing new to say) and earnest two-handers.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
  • But if Charity’s case history imposes some order and fixity on Eugene’s life, the rest of The Knockout Artist reads like an attempt to thwart this, to replace the tidiness of explanation with something more formless and free.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • These actively reduce phantom power draw which is the energy consumed by electronics even when they are turned off.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • There are about 3,600 bunkers on Sazan, armored cement mushrooms emerging from the vegetation or perched on mountaintops like lookouts against phantom American aircraft carriers or Soviet frigates.
    Marzio Mian, The Dial, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Boho Ruffle Trim Maxi Shirt With an asymmetric, drapey chiffon design, this maxi skirt presents an almost ethereal vibe thanks to the flowy material and ruffles.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 4 July 2025
  • Her ensemble was praised, with news reports noting the ethereal quality of her outfit.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.
    Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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