wraiths

plural of wraith

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraiths
Noun
  • For bones, spirits, and some menacing dolls, here’s where to go for a fright.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Budj Bim assigned the weeping she-oak (Casuarina) trees, whose whispering voices can be heard in the wind, to be the guardian spirits of the landscape.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Our resident puck-heads have always had a sweet spot for the old World Hockey Association and its myriad of ghosts.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Good Boy, Indy investigates strange noises and ghostly apparitions in the remote country house.
    Laura Martin, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In winter, breath crystallizes in the air, and the animals resemble pale apparitions in an otherworldly landscape of snow and ice.
    Susan Portnoy, AFAR Media, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Another young man, presumably X2, sits in the shadows nearby.
    David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • If built, the tower threatens to cast his 1865 house largely in the shadows for months at a time.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Understanding neutrinos’ properties could help explain how how the universe formed, how stars evolve and whether neutrinos, which pass through the Earth and even our bodies like phantoms, are their own antiparticles.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Because contemporary phantoms of Richard Mille, Patek Philippe, and Rolex are expertly constructed to entice even the most discerning eye, provenance is crucial.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Wraiths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wraiths. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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