How to Use phantasm in a Sentence

phantasm

noun
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  • As for Patty Hearst herself, Toobin treats her as a person, not a tabloid phantasm.
    — Dana Spiotta, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
  • The restless ghost of the company—its supernatural imprint—will dwell in the space until the end of time, which is a major plus for any phantasm fan.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But when the team practices in Alexandria, that bullet hole will serve as a dark reminder of the phantasms which long haunt Eugene Simpson Stadium.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Gottlieb’s story offers a fleeting glimpse into a world that is usually no more than a phantasm or a hideous dream.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • His drawing shows an electric-blue phantasm on the wing, more like an angel or a pegasus than any earthly being.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Nor did this phantasm express itself solely in writing.
    — Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The rest are freaks and phantasms, the lone exception being Callie Hernandez as the millionaire’s daughter, who manages to seem wise and lost and sad before vanishing from the action.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • There’s about a second of silence as if everyone were holding their breath — then, bam, the room explodes in a phantasm of whirling red lights and soaring music and everyone crying out all at once and lifting their hands in the air.
    — Heather Chaplin, Cosmopolitan, 7 Sep. 2017
  • That the nocturnal ritual fantasy is no fantasy, that every phantasm is a sign.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • As Susan Owens highlights in her new cultural history of ghosts, phantasms and spirits have assumed many guises and taken up numerous causes over the millennia.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Entire families of the hairy monsters apparently traveled the base’s buildings and corridors, appearing and disappearing at will, and to the bewilderment of base police sent chasing after the phantasms.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018

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