Sentence examples for like a phantom from inspiring English sources

Will it pass through like a phantom?" Yet every day, I awake and joy waits.

It's like a phantom limb.

"But it's like a phantom.

Doubt crossed the room like a phantom.

"He was like a phantom," Tavadze told me.

The easy egalitarianism of English tingled like a phantom limb.

She was walking toward him, and she emerged as though materializing before him like a phantom.

The former colonies loom large, like a phantom limb, while Britain itself feels very small.

It would be like painting a phantom.

Yet Updike was a private man, if not a recluse like J. D. Salinger or a phantom like Thomas Pynchon, then a one-man gated community, visible from afar but firmly sealed off, with a No Trespassing sign posted in front.

Fighting the government's academies policy is like boxing with a phantom.