How to Use phantom in a Sentence

phantom

1 of 2 noun

• The book is about the phantoms that are said to haunt the nation's cemeteries.
• The crisis is merely a phantom made up by the media.
• The phantom is among the largest jellyfish in the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
• His London is full of phantoms slipping in and out of the fog.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• Reed was just running with Everett on the play and the back judge made a phantom call.
  — oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
• Sleep is known only by name, like a myth, like a phantom.
  — Penny Hueston, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Does the mere thought of biting into ice give you chills and phantom pain?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
• The book is written from the perspective of a phantom so to speak, from the idea of a scary Black person.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• Foremost among those phantoms: Josh Groban’s Sweeney, who glints but does not gleam in the darkness.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• All sorts of zombies, phantoms and ghosts snatch our money throughout the year.
  — Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2017
• The boy walking alongside him, in other words, is a phantom.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• Thence emerges, like a phantom, my defense of candy corn.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• This one involved a Utah vacation, a phantom cowboy, and the death of Bob Saget.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• But their phantom fears subject us all to very real ones.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• Despite that, Scientists have caught sightings of the phantom all over the world.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
• At the time of his death, at the age of 50, Jackson was like a phantom, a bewildering specter of his former self.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Pizzagate sent a man with a gun on a mission to hunt phantoms in a restaurant.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• The phantom of recurring legal notes has haunted The View once again.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 26 July 2023
• And the clamor was all over social media when Smith got tripped up by a phantom of the Gillette Stadium turf for a sack.
  — Vahe Gregorian, kansascity, 8 Sep. 2017
• Burgers with doughnuts for buns leave their sticky phantom glaze on my psyche to this day.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
• His meter, slung around his neck, rose phantom-like, jabbing his jaw.
  — James Joseph, Popular Mechanics, 31 Dec. 2020
• Notably scored the 'phantom' goal against Chelsea, sending the Reds through to that fateful game in Istanbul in 2005.
  — SI.com, 1 July 2019
• Through one phantom tackle and past a few others Edwards-Helaire dashed into the end zone.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2019
• Was the phantom orange scent a warning sign of his impending doom?
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• In her telling, the Eliza Battle can still be spotted on dark nights, floating along the Tombigbee, engulfed in phantom flames.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2021
• Northern Wolf was considered a long shot, but the horse was no phantom either.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2017
• For reporters, Mujahid was a kind of phantom, a disembodied voice on the phone.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• The Negro Leaguers would bring down the house in pregame warmups with their phantom infield drill, dazzling plays made with a pretend ball.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2020
• But the world leader who Trump claims is unhappy with 9 percent growth appears to be a phantom.
  — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• In Thursday’s 3-2 loss, home plate umpire Mark Ripperger drew the ire of Green with a phantom hit by pitch ruling.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2018

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phantom

2 of 2 adjective

• People claim to have seen a phantom ship floating on the lake.
• A number of ballots from phantom voters had to be thrown out.
• The backyard has a porch with phantom screens, a gas line for a grill and room for a pool.
  — Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2020
• Most of the reports are slope, but a few phantom users as well.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
• What was once the trip of a lifetime has become the phantom trip from hell.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• All three French doors have phantom screens to keep out summer pests.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• Jarrett Allen makes a great defensive play at the top of the floor down the stretch to a phantom whistle.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• What won't be found is a red wagon full of phantom ballots.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022
• The phantom scent of something burning still bothers her for hours at a time.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2021
• But that doesn’t explain how the phantom light raced across the river — or why Everell and the other men in the boat wound up a mile downstream.
  — Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Let somebody muff a key pass or drop a phantom penalty flag.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
• Observers warn that Macron’s phantom campaign could come back to haunt him.
  — Time, 1 Apr. 2022
• But much else about these phantom feelings is still a mystery.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• Both the old and the new death taxes will tax merely phantom inflation gains.
  — Ryan Ellis, National Review, 17 July 2021
• Giant phantom jellies truly live up to their name: The creature's bell can be up to three feet wide, and its arms reach lengths of 33 feet.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• The selling of such phantom shares was possible because of a three-day lag that was built into the process of settling trades.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• It’ll be blamed for sham robberies, phantom murders and the NCAA’s transfer portal.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• Not all people in the 2023 study were able to feel the phantom sensations that allow MiniTouch to function.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• Across the country, the Tajik state is building replicas of strongholds from the same era: miniature fortresses waiting for phantom armies.
  — Anna Sherman Maxime Fossat, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The material, as a matter of fact, proved to be the phantom thread running throughout.
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 7 Apr. 2022
• The saga of phantom noises clapping through The View has seemingly tooted out.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The phantom figure walked away in the direction of Jennifer's complex.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2020
• Soon after LaLaurie disappeared from New Orleans, people claimed to hear the phantom screams of her victims spilling from the house in the dead of night.
  — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• Other local legends hold that the desert is haunted by screaming ghosts or stalked by a phantom wolf.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• The production is all gothic beauty, from a stage lit with haunting reds and grays to a phantom coach drawn by horse skeletons.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2021
• The backyard features a pool, heated spa, patio with motorized phantom screens and a turfed side yard with a fire pit.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2021
• People who live with phantom smells or tastes are often hesitant to talk about them.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2021
• This month, after a historic series of powerful storms, the phantom lake has reemerged.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• They were met at the train stations by salesmen flogging lots in what were sometimes to be found in phantom towns that didn’t exist and never would.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Reverse confusions in the cars were mere peanuts to other problems drivers had, mostly about phantom braking, which led to the death of at least one Tesla owner.
  — Erin Marquis / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024