Examples of “wraith” in a Sentence

noun A ghost or ghostly figure, especially one believed to appear around the time of a person's death.

• We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. — , Under the Moons of Mars (1912)
• Locals swore they saw the wraith of the drowned sailor on foggy nights.
• Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces. — Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (2001)