How to Use wraith in a Sentence

wraith

noun

• The artist’s eye, like a wraith’s, seems to hover in midair.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• This was a wraith of a Giselle from the very beginning.
  — Jack Anderson, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• And innocent Mary comes to love the wraith of a child she is hired to care for.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2017
• Ned’s wraiths moved up beside him, with shadow swords in hand.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 13 Aug. 2017
• But for now, hope that little wraith won’t settle down.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 28 Feb. 2021
• Unlike wraith demons, the beastly Tarask can fully slip its bond to hell.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
• In the presence of this wraith, the villagers begin to exhume their own guilty secrets.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The winged wraith flew over the hacienda of Don Chico Vasquez, a man unimpressed by the folklore surrounding the lake.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
• What was the point of all that work, of the white man’s bisnis, if it could be obliterated by a distant wraith?
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• Huge groups of starlings weave and swirl to create otherworldly, wraith-like shadows in the sky.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• What's more, its wraith-like appearance is due to a total lack of pigment cells, or chromatophores, which are useless in the dark depths.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
• Talion and the wraith of Elven Lord Celebrimbor return once again.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2017
• Here, Liz is a sort of living wraith, a person who can’t exist in real life and who spends most of the second act washing blood off her feet.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• All of a sudden the wraith has materialised—not out of concern for the climate, as oilmen feared, but because of covid-19.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• There’s a simplicity to this 87-minute wraith of a movie that seems to demand bare-bones description rather than lavish praise.
  — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
• Bald, covered in scars, and draped in monklike robes, Gorr (played by Christian Bale) is a vengeful wraith who wields a mystical blade and has only one goal in mind: killing gods.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• These include wraith motels, ghoul detectors and even specter silencers.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 30 July 2022
• McNamee kept monitoring the stairway as searchers descended, emerging like wraiths from the oily fog.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• Cancer transformed Wu from a baby-faced boy to a sallow wraith immobilized on a gurney.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
• There are shots of people drowning, scary wraith-like figures menacing kids in a fight, and the band members delivering babies as the sands of time surround them — all in reverse.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2022
• Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Instead of a wraith, scribbling on scraps, this Dickinson was meticulously constructing her legacy through poems that stowed away the infinite in the small.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• Here Myrtha was performed with one-note efficiency and unmemorable impact by lean, wraith-like Angelina Vlashinets.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• Collins will officially be a linebacker, but his actual position will be quarterback tormentor, a wraith who roams around the defense and lives rent free inside the signal-caller’s head.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024