phantom
noun
an apparition or specter.
phantomlike
-
a word derived from
phantom.
Example Sentences
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It was the kind of phantomlike day in a Midwest spring to inspire adventurers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the days went by the nameless terror grew, dogging his footsteps, phantomlike by day, and haunting him at night, as he lay shaking in his bunk in the double-locked little office.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
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 Joseph Hergesheimer
Of all the lyric poets of England, he is the greatest master of an ethereal, evanescent, phantomlike beauty.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
There came out of the mist a long procession of grey, phantomlike figures, each one leading a pony.
From In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
