Sentence examples similar to a phantom dread from inspiring English sources

So my phantom child remained just that--a phantom, a wish, and an unborn spirit.

"It's a phantom.

A Phantom for freaks?

"It's a phantom measure.

He sees terrible phantoms -- "phantom flames, phantom deformities, a phantom buddy".

Penelope was not a phantom.

Was it a phantom voice?

"I call it a phantom.

It would be like painting a phantom.

It's like a phantom limb.

"But it's like a phantom.