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
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
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
All his old world now seemed as remote, as insubstantial, as phantomlike, as this had seemed.
From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
Their thoughts are phantomlike; like shadows, they continually escape their grasp.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
