Example Sentences

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If the part is as insubstantially written as the one handed to poor McAdams, I’ll eat my Superman pyjamas.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

Gone With the Wind hovers, not insubstantially enough, in the background.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2016

All that fretting about how divorce has changed the world now hovers only insubstantially, like yesterday’s air freshener.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011

Galileo, who ought to be the radiant center of this dramatic universe, is so insubstantially summoned up by Topol that he is outshone and outdone by the secondary heavenly bodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The castle ghosts were there too, barely visible in the bright sunlight, discernible only when they moved, shimmering insubstantially on the gleaming air.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling