These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'wraith.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 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. David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022 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. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 30 July 2022 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. 2022 These include wraith motels, ghoul detectors and even specter silencers.
Elaine Showalter, The New Republic, 30 Sep. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself. 2021 Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. For example, we may speak of the apparition of a ghost. Even then, it usually refers not to the unnatural entity itself, but rather to its image becoming visible. It might mean an appearance of an unnatural entity, but this meaning is secondary and needs to be clarified in context.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. For example, we speak of the first apparition of a publication. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 July 2022 He’s become a rail-thin, wraith-like presence with lush, mid-back-length gray hair, living a seemingly marginal existence in a cluttered Stockholm apartment. Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023 Christian Bale, his hairless body wraith-pale and lips blackened like a day-walking Nosferatu, has been handed the villain's mantle this time as Gorr the God Butcher, a vessel of vengeance armed with a death-list for misbehaving deities and an immortal blade called the Necrosword. Recent Examples on the Web Indeed, Moore is writing in a treacherous emotional realm here, and her story moves with no more predictability than a wraith.
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