Example Sentences

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This time around, the wraithlike Bill Skarsgård is our back-from-the-dead avenger.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024

Pale and wraithlike, Pattinson’s bummer of a Batman slugs and slashes his way through his crime-fighting duties, at one point introducing himself as Vengeance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

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

But when the others visit him, they recoil at the sight of its anxious wraithlike residents in the throes of Alzheimer’s and whisk him out of the place.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2012

Ash woke in the middle of the night from a dream of horses — tall, thundering white horses with foaming mouths and slender, wraithlike riders.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo