How to Use phantom in a Sentence

phantom

1 of 2 noun

• The book is about the phantoms that are said to haunt the nation's cemeteries.
• The crisis is merely a phantom made up by the media.
• Does the mere thought of biting into ice give you chills and phantom pain?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• His meter, slung around his neck, rose phantom-like, jabbing his jaw.
  — James Joseph, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
• His London is full of phantoms slipping in and out of the fog.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• Burgers with doughnuts for buns leave their sticky phantom glaze on my psyche to this day.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
• All sorts of zombies, phantoms and ghosts snatch our money throughout the year.
  — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• Reed was just running with Everett on the play and the back judge made a phantom call.
  — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
• Pizzagate sent a man with a gun on a mission to hunt phantoms in a restaurant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• Was the phantom orange scent a warning sign of his impending doom?
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The Neihardts assumed the phantom sounds came from Mona.
  — Shannon Taggart, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
• His journey takes him far across the galaxy, chasing rumors and phantoms.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
• Old Town The belltower looms like a phantom.
  — Chen Yuhong, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
• There has been a phantom haunting this Matlock season.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
• Northern Wolf was considered a long shot, but the horse was no phantom either.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2017
• Science and magic, love, humour and phantoms.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
• That’s the £312 million phantom.
  — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
• The book is written from the perspective of a phantom so to speak, from the idea of a scary Black person.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• Despite that, Scientists have caught sightings of the phantom all over the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
• When the surplus was exposed as a phantom, the state was stuck with a chronic income/outgo gap that persists.
  — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
• When the surplus was exposed as a phantom, the state was stuck with a chronic income/outgo gap that persists.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
• In this paradise, time is spent wading in near-silence searching for bonefish, known as the silver phantom.
  — David Coggins, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
• For reporters, Mujahid was a kind of phantom, a disembodied voice on the phone.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Through one phantom tackle and past a few others Edwards-Helaire dashed into the end zone.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 12 Nov. 2019
• The phantom of recurring legal notes has haunted The View once again.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 26 July 2023
• But the world leader who Trump claims is unhappy with 9 percent growth appears to be a phantom.
  — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• This one involved a Utah vacation, a phantom cowboy, and the death of Bob Saget.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• The film plays with the theme of ghosts or phantoms, referenced in the English title of the movie, maybe ghosts of the past or ghosts of lives that could have been.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• At the time of his death, at the age of 50, Jackson was like a phantom, a bewildering specter of his former self.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Take the challenge up a level with the Rubik's phantom, which tests his memory as well as his puzzle-solving skills.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022

phantom

2 of 2 adjective

• People claim to have seen a phantom ship floating on the lake.
• A number of ballots from phantom voters had to be thrown out.
• Most of the reports are slope, but a few phantom users as well.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• The backyard has a porch with phantom screens, a gas line for a grill and room for a pool.
  — Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2020
• All three French doors have phantom screens to keep out summer pests.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• But much else about these phantom feelings is still a mystery.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• What was once the trip of a lifetime has become the phantom trip from hell.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• This is where phantom income comes into play.
  — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
• Other times, a phantom string quartet warmed up.
  — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• Stop protecting your best ideas from phantom thieves.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The phantom scent of something burning still bothers her for hours at a time.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• Hutch is a phantom presence around the Mansell household at best.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
• Observers warn that Macron’s phantom campaign could come back to haunt him.
  — Time, 1 Apr. 2022
• No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• That phantom record-breaking season will always be just that.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2021
• Both the old and the new death taxes will tax merely phantom inflation gains.
  — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 17 July 2021
• People who live with phantom smells or tastes are often hesitant to talk about them.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• What is the phantom French manicure?
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, Refinery29, 3 Feb. 2026
• Other local legends hold that the desert is haunted by screaming ghosts or stalked by a phantom wolf.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Hubbard now battles sharp phantom pains and a loss of memory and cognizant skills.
  — Tim Craig and Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Betting on the point spread creates a kind of parallel, phantom game that changes the plot points of the drama.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
• After that, their best scoring chances came with the phantom runners in extra innings.
  — Dallas News, 14 May 2021
• Jarrett Allen makes a great defensive play at the top of the floor down the stretch to a phantom whistle.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• This month, after a historic series of powerful storms, the phantom lake has reemerged.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The phantom ocean column has an assemblage of bones from sea creatures snagged in bottom-trawling ghost nets.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
• The material, as a matter of fact, proved to be the phantom thread running throughout.
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2022
• The selling of such phantom shares was possible because of a three-day lag that was built into the process of settling trades.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• The production is all gothic beauty, from a stage lit with haunting reds and grays to a phantom coach drawn by horse skeletons.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
• William Contreras threw a phantom ball down to third base to commemorate it.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
• With all things in the beauty galaxy, there’s always a new hope, but of course a phantom menace lurks around every corner.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 15 Jan. 2026