wraith
noun
an apparition of a living person supposed to portend their death.
wraithlike
-
a word derived from
wraith.
Example Sentences
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Though Ruthie did escape, and was away from her hometown for years, she has waited for release from its wraithlike grasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Cunningham’s lens was ecumenical; he loved great dressers, and he didn’t discriminate between young and old, wraithlike and Venusian, high and low.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2016
“He felt that Jacqueline had been depicted as a mournful, wraithlike figure,” the Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman told Art News in 1982.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2015
Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
