Translations for „wraithlike“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈwraith·like ADJ

wraithlike

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wraithlike

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English

She describes it hanging, wraithlike, in thin layers on the landscape.

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Funny, but a wraithlike drizzle begins to fall the instant he begins.

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They gave it its name from the wraithlike vapor formations they often saw rising off it on cooler mornings.

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His thinness gives him a wraithlike appearance, but when he's lit up about something (as he is most waking moments), he does not seem frail.

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At this point, a wraithlike creature called a "cobbly" appears, having traveled from another world on the time thread.

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The truth is that what seemed marvellous and novel in, say, the 1850s can now appear wraithlike.

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There was a subtlety in the predators that defied description and eluded cameras, a capacity to move without exciting attention, a wraithlike quality of unobtrusiveness.

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Cavernous reverb drones and acid-fried, wraithlike instrumentals abound as if calling to some long-forgotten mossy monolith of ancient ritual design.

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