Explore Apparition through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like phantom or phantasm. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Apparition meaning
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
Synonyms of Apparition
Using Apparition
- The main meaning on this page is: An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. | The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. | An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
- Useful related words include: phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm.
- In the example corpus, apparition often appears in combinations such as: the apparition, an apparition, apparition of.
Context around Apparition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Apparition
- In this selection, "apparition" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fourth, final, clad, jacinta, says and dubbed stand out and add context to how "apparition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a horrifying apparition la llorona and chain clad apparition. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "apparition" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with apparition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shortly after the fourth apparition, Jacinta found a rope. (9 words)
This apparition will scare the crap out of you. (9 words)
Stephanie spotted the apparition while doing their regular checks of the doorbell camera. (13 words)
It is rather surprising that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is behaving like a rain-beaten chicken, crying all over the place about Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, as if the Senate President is the apparition haunting his life and the sinking ship that he captains. (43 words)
While it’s certainly easy to say you saw or heard an apparition or experienced some ephemeral paranormal event, it’s a lot harder to claim doors were ripped from their hinges when investigators could plainly see that they never were. (41 words)
And some US Catholics are voicing their belief that God spared Trump’s life in Pennsylvania on July 13, associating the assassination attempt with an apparition of the Virgin Mary that same date in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gemma Knight Jones gave a fantastic performance as The Ghost of Christmas Present, giving the apparition a fiery and driven nature.
Stephanie spotted the apparition while doing their regular checks of the doorbell camera.
The apparition has been seen by several managers and guests and most often appears mid-morning between 10am and 10.30am, either on the stairs or in the bar.
And some US Catholics are voicing their belief that God spared Trump’s life in Pennsylvania on July 13, associating the assassination attempt with an apparition of the Virgin Mary that same date in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal.
At 7 p.m. is on the 107th Anniversary of the Final Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima from the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Asbury, New Jersey.
Dickens’s original story begins with talk of Marley’s death seven years prior, and we only see him as a chain-clad apparition.
Shortly after the fourth apparition, Jacinta found a rope.
The app seems to see an apparition that leads the girls downstairs, though they can’t see anything with their eyes.
The popularity of this apparition has become so great that the village attracts a million pilgrims each year.
This apparition will scare the crap out of you.
Accounts claim an apparition says, "What you're looking for is over there," before vanishing into thin air.
After rebuking their attempts to help him and destroying the apparition of his father, Shigaraki approaches All For One, signalling his mental transformation has been completed.
The writer-director is also the lead performer here, given an “introducing” credit (prior features “Senorita” and “Apparition” were credited to Vincent Sandoval).
He's haunted by an absolutely terrifying female apparition dubbed as Lisa, while uncovering bits and pieces from his haunted past.
Now, as a horrifying apparition, La Llorona preys on children, desperate to replace her own, and she has her sights set on Anna’s family.
While it’s certainly easy to say you saw or heard an apparition or experienced some ephemeral paranormal event, it’s a lot harder to claim doors were ripped from their hinges when investigators could plainly see that they never were.
Are you not under my protection?” said Our Lady of Guadalupe on her fourth apparition.
As the story of the apparition spread, many went to pray at the site.
It is rather surprising that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is behaving like a rain-beaten chicken, crying all over the place about Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, as if the Senate President is the apparition haunting his life and the sinking ship that he captains.
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Common combinations with apparition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the apparition 17×
- an apparition 10×
- apparition of 10×
- this apparition 3×
- apparition has 2×
- fourth apparition 2×
- apparition is 2×
- apparition but 2×
- apparition in 2×