Sentence examples for phantom figure from inspiring English sources

Billy the Kid is something of a phantom figure.

Then Graham and Merrill see a phantom figure on the barn roof.

Actually Monroe called all her men Daddy, in honor of the phantom figure who fathered Norma Jean and disappeared, never to be identified for certain.

The danger that we sense lurking outside the doors and hovering beyond the windows feels very real, even though what we fear is a phantom figure, a bogeyman we never meet: Mary Anne's abusive husband, John.

Although Dr. Bell's interest is piqued by such bizarre aspects of the case as the phantom figure who pursues the heroine on a bicycle, our fascination is with Dr. Bell and his scientific methods of detection.

This woman (played by Jemma Redgrave) has, by force of will, imagined Najibullah (Daniel Rabin) into existence and she summons this phantom figure out of the exasperation that comes from pondering inexplicable behavior.

There's a purgatorial quality to this eternally twisting scene, with its phantom figures doomed to haunt the same circuit.

Gradually, phantom figures move across the space, evoking that brief predawn moment when animals begin to stir.

For those living in the capital, "City boys", and girls, are phantom figures.

Fluctuations of the reconstructed activity with ROI size were observed for all calibration phantoms (Figure 3).

Contrast recovery coefficients [CRCs] obtained with the different collimators were compared on the sphere phantoms (Figure 2).