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• Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 22, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. From the entry shimmer
• Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition.2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 139. From the entry Abuja
• So this is where they come from, Ruineux thinks, sizing up the sooty apparition.2002, Edward Desautels, A Flicker in the Porthole Glass. From the entry ventman
• And there are beautiful but infrequent apparitions of Mars, one of which will peak this month.1990, Connecticut Environment, Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection, page 23. From the entry supermeteor
• Murray most assuredly has, as well as the ability to remain unruffled by bizarre apparitions.1984 June 8, Janet Maslin, “Film: Ghostbusters, with Murray and Aykroyd”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Mar 2014. From the entry cool head
• The hotel had revealed many interesting energy anomalies, orbs, and ecto-mists, but none as impressive as these apparitions.2011 October 8, Melba Goodwyn, Ghost Worlds: A Guide to Poltergeists, Portals, Ecto-Mist, & Spirit Behavior, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN…. From the entry ecto-mist
• When I looked up, I beheld an apparition, as if summoned by my thoughts, for I immediately recognised a Time Travelleress!1995 September 15, Lucy Sussex, “A fit future for women with vision”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,773, Melbourne, Vic., page 12…. From the entry travelleress
• The apparition frightened her, and she had dropped the plate.1989, Gordon Parks, The Learning Tree. From the entry tattlesome
• Such experiences were unlike dreams, or any of the miasmic apparitions that arise in the natural psyche, below the mind.1974, Adi Da Samraj, Saniel Bonder, and Terry Patten, Garbage and the Goddess: The Last Miracles and Final Spiritual Instructions of Bubba…. From the entry miasmic
• Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry deuce
• Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 24, in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. From the entry incredulity
• "A fearful apparition," murmured Norman of Torn.1914 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VII, in The Outlaw of Torn, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published 1927…. From the entry helm
• Sensitive reader, start not at the apparition!1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry plexus
• It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry warlock
• Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.2010 September 29, Paul Lester, “New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO”, in The Guardian. From the entry drag
• The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229. From the entry vampire squid
• The majority of graveyard ghost stories that involve voices being heard and ecto-mist or full apparitions being seen could very well be the work of a cemetery guardian.2011 February 8, Melba Goodwyn, Chasing Graveyard Ghosts: Investigations of Haunted & Hallowed Ground, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry ecto-mist
• The effect the apparition had on me was to make me start violently, and we all know what happens when you start violently while holding a full cup of tea.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry trousers
• People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?1908, Henry James, chapter 2, in The Jolly Corner. From the entry apparitional

Meaning of apparition

1. noun An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
2. noun The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
3. noun An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.

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Questions about apparition in a sentence

How do you use apparition in a sentence?

Apparition is used as a noun. For example: “The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.”

What is a short sentence with apparition?

“"A fearful apparition," murmured Norman of Torn.”

What does apparition mean?

Apparition means an act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.