How to Use apparition in a Sentence

apparition

noun
  • Zoe, as an apparition, is both the cause and relief to her pain.
    — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Acosta’s bright shapes could be seen as apparitions of a sort.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Others claim to have seen the apparition of a man in a top hat in the parlor.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Zombies and demons and apparitions and creatures of the night.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Others have seen an apparition of a bearded man who looks like the crew member.
    — Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The oddest sighting is an apparition that appears to be half-wolf and half-man.
    — AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Even the tiniest glimmer of hope feels like an apparition from the heavens.
    — Alegría Adedeji, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Feb. 2021
  • In one, a red apparition seems ready to smash people with a flyswatter.
    — Ian Johnson, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
  • 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 Lockwood’s world, the apparition of a saint is not strictly strange.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Fettel is present as a ghostly apparition.
    — Will Borger, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Poirot hears the voices of children and even sees what can only be described as apparitions.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • But Evan Mobley fills those margins with his apparitions of length.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • But the most exciting apparition must be the new Kang variant.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 July 2022
  • These days, Maurice is said to appear as an apparition on the 14th floor.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, at times the captain cannot be sure the man is not an apparition, visible only to him.
    — David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • An apparition will appear before us.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There are scenes of feasts (chickens on spits) and an ominous apparition (Halley’s comet).
    — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Unafraid and excited, the girl called for her nanny to come see, but the apparition vanished.
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The hillock also serves to beckon people from the distance, a head-scratching apparition that pulls you west.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Explore historic sites on both sides of Ohio River to hear of past and present apparitions.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • As the music plays, apparitions of shamans and African tribal dancers begin to mingle with the crowd.
    — EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the chapel wall where the apparition appeared, Biden touched the bricks before going inside.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Before Bill can make sense of the apparition, the majestic creature trudges off screen.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022
  • The industrial city of a million people was just starting its day when the apparition blazed across the sky.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The store that kinda just appears one night in your local mall like an apparition only has a few months to make a year’s worth of revenue.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025

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