The phrase "a kind of phantom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is elusive, insubstantial, or not fully formed, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The memories of her childhood felt like a kind of phantom, haunting her thoughts yet remaining just out of reach."
Alternatives: "a sort of ghost" or "a type of specter".
She is a kind of phantom ur-wife.
As a result, she became a kind of phantom voice in my head.
Ocelot, which described itself in a 2007 Deutsche Bank press release as building a portfolio of subsidized, "income-producing real estate," has become a kind of phantom.
So it must have been this version, rather than Hughes's original, that had insinuated itself into my brain and from there morphed into a kind of phantom text.
However, distance has made the site of the Goldstone Ground, which is now a shopping centre, a kind of phantom limb for Martin.
But there is reason for skepticism, too, as "Al Qaeda" has become a kind of phantom cited by almost anyone — the Assad government to bolster claims that its opponents are terrorists, Washington as another reason to shun deeper entanglement.
Consigned to a kind of refugee phantom zone on these islands, they have been given Kafkaesque choices that are not choices at all: stay where you are, go back from where you fled, or try your luck in Cambodia – the most unlikely and expensive debacle of all the impoverished solutions that have been served up to date.
And for people like me, "Jedi" was already a kind of "The Phantom Menace" in that we're like, "You've got to be kidding me with these Ewoks.
The essay reaches from your twenties to your forties, and toward the end of the essay, you deem yourself "a particular kind of butch you find in straight women," which you name "a phantom butch".
As a specific example, we consider the interaction of this kind of phantom matter with a dust distribution.
This kind of phantom pain in amputated limbs is a widely observed phenomenon, but for a long time it was thought to be a response to trauma of the "cauterized" nerves in the residual limb.
