wraithlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
Adjective
  • Gomez and Morticia buried him, but kept his disembodied hand, which eventually became Thing (Victor Dorobantu).
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There are few actors whose disembodied voices could carry long stretches of cinema, but Dafoe manages it, turning monologues about marionette mechanics or muttered complaints about hotel politics into something weirdly magnetic.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Trillions of ghostly particles called neutrinos stream through our bodies every second, slipping past atoms without a trace.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Participants begin with live actors in red dresses, then transition into VR where ghostly avatars, fragmented scenes of loss, and an uncanny doppelgänger encounter unfold.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
    Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • In fact, magical life has the potential to be even more radically incorporeal than our own.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time.
    Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • The movement offered a more spiritual alternative to both futurism and communism.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • And there’s also a big demographic of that group that likes spiritual music of any kind — anything devotional.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the bottlenecks in frequency comb technology has been the high energy required for spectral broadening.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In the video above, Geralt goes head-to-spectral-head with a wraith.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Just ask Happy Gilmore 2, a formless, two-hour blob of Adam Sandler’s family and celebrity friends, with no real creative drive to speak of.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Aug. 2025
  • With its eerily formless threat, catchy theme song, wholesome teen heroes, and ingeniously practical ooze effects (a dazzling mix of in-camera and optical printing), The Blob straddles atomic-era paranoia and gooey creature-feature fun.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • These calls -- known as swatting -- panicked at least a dozen schools as police rush to campuses, chasing phantom threats with many of them being racially motivated and targeting historically Black colleges and universities.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Alias Pro features a 25mm cardioid condenser capsule that captures detailed, natural vocals, paired with a mixer that supplies phantom power and intuitive controls.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Wraithlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraithlike. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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