Sample sentences for APPARITION

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Definition

a ghostlike figure or its appearance

More rarely, apparition can refer to any strange, other-worldly, thing or its appearance. Even more rarely, apparition can by a synonym for appearance. The Harry Potter series uses the word both ways.

Hamlet saw an apparition at midnight.

apparition = a ghostlike figure

She saw an apparition of the dead man.

apparition = ghostlike figure

She said she saw an apparition of Jesus.

apparition = ghostlike appearance

Every night, in his dreams, an apparition would form in his head and burn there.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

apparition = ghostlike figure

In which she swears that she never saw familiar spirits, apparitions, nor any manifest of the Devil.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

apparitions = ghostlike figures

Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

apparitions = ghostlike figures

They are soundless apparitions that speak to me, with looks and gestures silently, without any word—
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

apparitions = ghostlike figures

An Apparition at the Door
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

apparition = ghostlike figure

It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

apparitions = ghostlike figures

Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

apparition = ghostlike figure

Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

apparition = ghostlike figure

FIRST APPARITION
William Shakespeare -- Macbeth

apparition = a ghostlike figure

There are—Lidewij, there are two adolescent apparitions outside the door.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

apparitions = ghostlike figures

"Apparitions?" she asked with a pleasant Dutch lilt.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

apparitions = ghostlike figures

The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

apparition = ghostlike figure

They arise no more; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon, they are a mysterious reflection, an apparition, that haunts us, that we fear and love without hope.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

apparition = ghostlike figure

And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

apparitions = ghostlike figures

At the unexpected apparition, no one dared even to breathe.
Carlo Collodi -- The Adventures Of Pinocchio
These weird apparitions had been handsome youths, clad in fashionable attire, fifteen minutes before, but now they did not resemble any beings one ever sees unless in nightmares.
Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad

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