How to Use spectral in a Sentence

spectral

adjective

• And then there’s the spectral presence of Howard’s wife, Pearl.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
• By the time a blurry spectral figure appears, the gang is geared up and ready for a fight.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
• As our eyes adjusted to the darkness, a spectral face came into view on one of the walls.
  — David Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• The victims of mass shootings in schools leave behind a spectral trail.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• From this spectral change and the time difference, your brain perceives the location of the sound source.
  — Qi “peter” Li, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2022
• But when the moon is full their spirits rise for a spectral gathering.
  — Kira Garcia, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Some of us are lucky enough to find friendship in the spectral echoes of divine listening.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Consider adding a spectral spin to your road trip with a stop at Witch Creek Winery, just one block off the beach.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The movie is shot from the perspective of the spectral entity at its center.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• As a graph gets more connected, its spectral gap will tend to get bigger.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2022
• Cecilia would select spectral plates to look at and take them to her office, but not by hand.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• Look at the spectral muscles that used to be firm and perky and really powerful.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• Artworks that evoke a keen sense of loss and grief fill the rooms, Johns' own shadow looming like a spectral figure in several of the paintings.
  — CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• Most nights since a coup returned Myanmar to military rule on Feb. 1, a spectral symbol of protest has glowed on a mildewed side of a building.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• An application on the canvas makes the sails glow at night, a spectral indictment of Maury Park (the grounds still bear his name).
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
• Seeing him across from Washington onstage has a spectral charge of its own.
  — Vulture, 13 Oct. 2022
• Many who stayed are former workers at the plant, and some of them are now taking shelter in the basement of the spectral industrial space.
  — Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Spread on social media, the snapshot of the skinny, spectral vortex descending from dark clouds made the late news.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
• Alice’s chief interlocutor is her brother Japhy (Justin Kirk), who floats in and out of the play with spectral freedom.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• For half a decade, the spectral presence of Russia has haunted U.S. politics.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• The novel’s tension derives not from whether Vo Danh will survive the drug war or his past offenses, but whether this spectral man will, in the fullest meaning of the word, live.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Our less-than-heroic hero, whose drinking is a bit out of control, begins to see spectral presences all around him (unless that’s just the whisky at work).
  — Bill Tipper, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
• There's a fun couch co-op mode where a second player controls a spectral, gooey version of Luigi to help solve puzzles.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024
• Instead of the thin spectral lines by which the elements in stars can be recognized the lines of the super novae resemble broad bands.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2020
• In one, strips of crystal marked by glowing red imperfections seem to glint with spectral light along a blue background.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• Their spectral analysis, tuned toward picking up the presence of tiny things, showed that at least some dust is indeed present.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 10 Sep. 2021
• The assumption throughout the first few episodes is likely that Mikey will remain a spectral presence, nothing more.
  — Tres Dean, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2022
• The work oscillates between the corporeal and the spectral.
  — Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2021
• Indeed, a certain spectral lemon-lime-ness has been with us since the very start of manufactured fizzy water in the 18th century.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 July 2023
• The spectral presence of the hotel’s founder, the late John Eberhardt, is seen in a portrait photo that has been set on fire, a flamboyant rendering of the past going up in smoke.
  — Jack Parlett, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024