How to Use wraith in a Sentence

wraith

noun

• Ned’s wraiths moved up beside him, with shadow swords in hand.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 13 Aug. 2017
• In the video above, Geralt goes head-to-spectral-head with a wraith.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025
• And innocent Mary comes to love the wraith of a child she is hired to care for.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017
• The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Unlike wraith demons, the beastly Tarask can fully slip its bond to hell.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
• In the presence of this wraith, the villagers begin to exhume their own guilty secrets.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• What was the point of all that work, of the white man’s bisnis, if it could be obliterated by a distant wraith?
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• These include wraith motels, ghoul detectors and even specter silencers.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• Huge groups of starlings weave and swirl to create otherworldly, wraith-like shadows in the sky.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• What's more, its wraith-like appearance is due to a total lack of pigment cells, or chromatophores, which are useless in the dark depths.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
• Discovery, two of the bigger owners of these cable-network wraiths, haven’t had much to show for keeping them up and running.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
• Pilots can see bad weather lurking in the distance hours before takeoff, glowing like a wraith on their digital maps.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Here, Liz is a sort of living wraith, a person who can’t exist in real life and who spends most of the second act washing blood off her feet.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Talion and the wraith of Elven Lord Celebrimbor return once again.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• There’s a simplicity to this 87-minute wraith of a movie that seems to demand bare-bones description rather than lavish praise.
  — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
• On his journey, Geralt slices up several soldiers, a giant, ogre-like creature and a ghostly wraith.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
• McNamee kept monitoring the stairway as searchers descended, emerging like wraiths from the oily fog.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• All of a sudden the wraith has materialised—not out of concern for the climate, as oilmen feared, but because of covid-19.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• And the second revealed the full menagerie of creatures that will appear in Season 2, including wraiths, wolves, ents and a giant cave troll.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 July 2024
• Indeed, Moore is writing in a treacherous emotional realm here, and her story moves with no more predictability than a wraith.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Chen is the wraith-like heart of this story, but her character strains belief even in a shaky hand of a movie that operates with all the internal logic of a gambling addiction.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
• In the footage, Geralt approaches the domain of a wraith and battles the skeletal specter, culminating in a heart-ripping moment.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
• There are shots of people drowning, scary wraith-like figures menacing kids in a fight, and the band members delivering babies as the sands of time surround them — all in reverse.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2022
• The first teaser shows Hemsworth’s Geralt, who looks very similar to Cavill’s version, vanquish a ghostly wraith.
  — Lauren Coates, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
• Many slide hopelessly back into lives as nearly invisible wraiths, measured in the intervals between fixes — and arrests.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
• Instead of a wraith, scribbling on scraps, this Dickinson was meticulously constructing her legacy through poems that stowed away the infinite in the small.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• The First Shadow was an effect as magical as the telekinetic wraiths emanating above the actors’ bodies.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
• Here Myrtha was performed with one-note efficiency and unmemorable impact by lean, wraith-like Angelina Vlashinets.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• Collins will officially be a linebacker, but his actual position will be quarterback tormentor, a wraith who roams around the defense and lives rent free inside the signal-caller’s head.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2020