How to Use apparition in a Sentence

apparition

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  • Some have seen apparitions of a woman in all white, a man dressed in old-fashioned clothing and another man wearing more modern clothing.
    — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • This female apparition mourns alongside the family of the recently deceased.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The apparition of these faces in a crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough.
    — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The apparition that mentors him comes in the form of Elvis.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • But that still doesn't explain the apparition of the man...
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Others claim to have seen the apparition of a man in a top hat in the parlor.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • This is the best night to see Mercury in its current April-June apparition, and the best of the year, too.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The story was filmed from the POV of the ghost, with the camera moving throughout the house as the apparition.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The story was filmed from the point of view of the ghost, with the camera moving throughout the house as the apparition.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • This is one of the best nights to see Mercury in its current April-June apparition, and one the best of the year, too.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Zombies and demons and apparitions and creatures of the night.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Not that the Catholic church thinks the apparition was a miracle.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The idea that the ghost is a uniquely British apparition does not quite ring true, either.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • In the rolling hills of South Dakota, a mass of clouds moved in like apparitions reaching out and touching the earth.
    — Liesl Bradner, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • A hot wind rattles the wind chimes, and dust devils emerge like apparitions on the valley floor.
    — John Locher, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2016
  • None of it was here four days ago, and as with any good apparition, none of it will be here tomorrow.
    — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Even the tiniest glimmer of hope feels like an apparition from the heavens.
    — Alegría Adedeji, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2021
  • On cloudless days, when the sun is low on the horizon, the boulders look a bit like alien apparitions as the sunlight shines through them.
    — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
  • When Lali walks into the kitchen, an apparition of the SS soldier appears.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The oddest sighting is an apparition that appears to be half-wolf and half-man.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • That makes the 1859 apparition site, flanked by farmland, a place of pilgrimage for people from around the world.
    — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
  • Her most recent public apparition at the site was in 2014.
    — al, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Students claim to have seen a red apparition floating down the hallways and heard the clicking of the Red Lady’s high heels.
    — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • The history of this convent goest back to the early 1400s, when an apparition of the Virgin Mary was seen to have shown up in a thorn bush.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • At the chapel wall where the apparition appeared, Biden touched the bricks before going inside.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Explore historic sites on both sides of Ohio River to hear of past and present apparitions.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But the most exciting apparition must be the new Kang variant.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 July 2022
  • In one, a red apparition seems ready to smash people with a flyswatter.
    — Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Some posit that the silent apparition with the Gibson Girl hair is the spirit of the 55 horses that perished on that terrible day.
    — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 12 July 2018
  • Her last public apparitions in the field at Caritas were in 2013.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 June 2023

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