Example Sentences

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The primary reality is rendered unrecog� nizable or replaced by a secondary, phantomlike reality.

From SAT Tests

It was the kind of phantomlike day in a Midwest spring to inspire adventurers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Confetti tangled in coppery hair, a wilful mouth, fragrantly painted, and phantomlike swans on a black lake.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

The ice-floes crashed and groaned, gulls whirled phantomlike and screaming above our stained spars, and all the time the wind blew against us as if some supernatural force were bent on driving us back.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various

All his old world now seemed as remote, as insubstantial, as phantomlike, as this had seemed.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward