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

Were they not travelling in a mirage, mirage people, unreal, phantomlike, who would presently fade away into the spaces of the sun?

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

There came out of the mist a long procession of grey, phantomlike figures, each one leading a pony.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

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

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward