Sample Sentences for
apparition
(editor-reviewed)

apparition as in:  a headless apparition

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    An Apparition at the Door  (source)
    Apparition = ghostlike figure
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    Every night, in his dreams, an apparition would form in his head and burn there.  (source)
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    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.  (source)
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    Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?  (source)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
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    Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
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    There is something apparitional in the moment and it chills and excites him and sends his hand into his pocket to touch the bleak pages hidden there.†  (source)
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    The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athwart and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
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    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.  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
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    1923 — An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary†  (source)
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    In which she swears that she never saw familiar spirits, apparitions, nor any manifest of the Devil.  (source)
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    Mr. Malfoy then saw an extraordinary apparition.†  (source)
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    This was too theatrical to be true, yet there they were: sudden apparitions, like Martians.†  (source)
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