phantom-like

So far, everything had seemed phantom-like, as in a dream, but the brutal truth of what he had said shocked her eyes wide open to the reality of what was taking place.

THE UNEXPECTED 2010

Actually the hotel has a few phantom-like residents as well.

NaNoWriMo Day 1 Update and Lessons Learnt on Writing My First Novel | The Creative Penn 2009

Nobody receives all the education ancient ghosts can give him--grammar and math both old style, which doesn't really help him, but also some very cool phantom-like tricks including Fading, Sliding and Dreamwalking.

The Hugo 2009 Finalists, Part 1 - The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (Revised Review) Fabio Fernandes 2009

Because those guys are notoriously hard to hit, again as the Western news services have so well established: They're "shadowy," phantom-like, these terrorists.

Tom McCarthy: War DeLuxe 2008

She, therefore, exerted herself to the utmost, so as to keep pace with the phantom-like apparition, and followed the knight, as the evening shadow keeps watch upon the belated rustic.

Castle Dangerous 2008

(The character values set by most middle-class American families are of such low standards and phantom-like in their substance that openly practicing homosexuals declare that they should have identical right to this debaucle [sp]; and rightfully so).

Think Progress » Specter Caves, Proposes Blanket Amnesty For Illegal Government Surveillance 2006

Prior to March 2005 I had just been lurking in the comics blogosphere, phantom-like, always reading and never participating, interacting.

Archive 2006-03-01 David Campbell 2006

It seemed to me that everything had been said now that mattered in the world; and that the world itself had reached its ultimate stage, had reached its appointed end of an eternal, phantom-like silence.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

The phantom-like European listeners, the "empty faces peering from (apparently) empty houses", will have no opportunity tomorrow to say that the plunging hoofs are gone.

ANC Today 2005

From time to time they sped by some phantom-like tree, whose white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind.

Around the World in 80 Days 2003