How To Use Phantom In A Sentence

A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
In this work, the dose distribution produced by a single, rectangular ( "planar") x-ray microbeam was simulated inside the head phantoms which had a cylindrical shape. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Conclusion: Neurotropin is effective and safe in the treatment of phantom limb pain after...
Yes, every tree as if is a mystery story the phantom, every flower mushroom seems to hide an ancient riddle.

Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
Treatments for phantom pain may involve medications or other therapies.
The show runs from March 16-20 and features a specially composed theme song and musical hits from Chicago, Phantom of the Opera and Ring of the Roses.
Amputees sometimes experience phantom limb sensations, feeling pain, itching or other impulses coming from limbs that no longer exist.
Raphaël Zarka believes that the world is inhabited by phantoms, reoccurring forms and remanence. We make money not art
Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night.
The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
Victor Sjöström's silent Swedish classic "The Phantom Carriage" 1921, based on a novel by the Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, could be watched as rewardingly on Christmas or Easter, thanks to its religious content. The Horror, at Home
Ten times ghastlier than if it had been real, the chorus wailed and ululated back and forth along immeasurable distances -- became one yell again -- and went howling down into earth's bowels as if the last of a phantom pack were left behind and yelling to be waited for. In The Time Of Light
His rationality was exiled to that other phantom domain where the Weapon of Law was being constructed according to dream-logic.
She starred as Christine in the 2004 film version of "Phantom of the Opera," where she displayed the singing voice - described as "angelic" - that had launched her career in show business in the first place. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
Smugglers made it the subject of a number of ghost stories, including the common one of a phantom black coach drawn by four headless black horses.
Kate felt a rush of adrenaline as she drew the silver sword and flew into the fray, her war cry calling the phantom armies to her.
A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
Four years ago, when I first stepped foot on the woodsy acres of Phantom Lake YMCA camp, I had no idea that it would soon become what I consider to be my home.
Six was a phantom - a ghost, a ghoul, a phantasm, a hallucination, a side effect of Stray's medicine, some unknown effect of acid, something of that sort.
Would that, for the sake of herself and her beautiful daughter ... would that for the sake of public morality, Mrs. Robinson were persuaded to dismiss the gloomy phantom of annihilation; to think seriously of a future rebribution; and to communicate to the world a recantation of errors that originated in levity, and have been nursed by pleasure. Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [ The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
A common practice in retailing mined diamond jewelry is to use phantom prices and then show impressive discounts in an effort to lure buyers.
Gordon is the first critic I know of to understand the strange "twinning" of the poet and Mabel Todd, who was almost like a phantom sister in her attachment to Emily's persona. Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds"
Plotinus, however, described the body itself as an eidolon - a simulacrum or phantom - of the soul: for him, the physical body was less real than the soul, and the soul in turn less real than divine Being.
A phantom coach is said to pass through the grounds of this house when there's a full moon.
The phantom tag at second base is another maneuver that big league middle infielders have mastered on steal plays.
I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.
The State Tourist Department can arrange for a sightseeing trip for the female ghost of the old city and phantoms in Banjara Hills.
They are dominated by classified ads: missing person searches, compact disc replication, name-change announcements and other intimations of a world of phantom insubstantiality.
Simon, who will be dressed in authentic Victorian costume, will talk about heroes and villains, hauntings and murders, and phantoms and ghouls.
In the slap of waves against the rocky shore one can imagine hearing phantom brigades moving across the lakes, paddling in close line astern, their canoes piled high with beaver pelts destined for Bond Street and the rue de Rivoli.
The first 32 issues featured Lee Falk's The Phantom stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Mandrake, Flash Gordon, and Buz Sawyer. Archive 2010-04-01
She had half-expected his phantom body to be so unsubstantial that his hands would fail to make any real contact. COLDHEART CANYON
On the moor was a throng of phantoms flitting on Petru's right and left hand, before and behind him. Roumanian Fairy Tales
I placed three phantom bets and made a phantom loss of & pound ; 145 .
In reality, Chinese culture is a phantom from a more recent concept, projected back anachronously through time to fulfill nationalist goals. Kuo Kuan-ying = Fan Lan-chin?
But there is a clue to how these phantom rings appear because they are often seen around sunrise. Times, Sunday Times
Althouse: "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love. "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
In addition, 71% of these patients also experienced phantom pain postamputation.
Published as a comic strip since 1936, the Phantom also appeared in movie serials, a feature film, and animated television series.
Not only could they see the phantom limb, but they could also feel it move. Times, Sunday Times
A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays
Christina analogized the sensation to the phantom limb phenomenon - she still has that nagging sense that something about school needs appeasement.
Today these phantom bonds total about $3.2 trillion, or 42 percent of the government's total outstanding debentures.
Media Watch: There's a bit more wit in Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera than I expected. View from the Northern Border
In the guestbook, he left a note and a drawing of three phantoms. Times, Sunday Times
THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION :" Publication of the University Study: "The Efficacy of FARABLOC in the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain.
In the slap of waves against the rocky shore one can imagine hearing phantom brigades moving across the lakes, paddling in close line astern, their canoes piled high with beaver pelts destined for Bond Street and the rue de Rivoli.
The CT quality control phantom was employed to analyze the stair step artifact. Helical scan was done with different slice thickness, pitch, increment and phantom position.
The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard.
The experienced earth lends something of its atmosphere to every world that we can conceive, and hence haunts these other worlds like a phantom.
Observation of these remnants, and early enthusiasm for erosion surfaces, probably caused many phantom surfaces to be reported, although bevelled cuestas are real.
It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward. The Scarlet Letter
The drug Prialt derived from this cone snail is effectively treating pain, including phantom-limb pain; it's non addictive and the human body does not appear to develop a tolerance. Dr. Reese Halter: Mother Nature's Medicine Cabinet
Then, in a room filled with Halloween images of ghosts and phantoms, Duncan Smith got his chance to show his hidden talents - at the pool table.
That which is commonly known by the term jocular and comick, is nothing but a turn of expression, an airy phantom, that must be caught at a particular point. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
The phenomenon of phantom limb syndrome has offered particularly useful insights into the brain's role in the way that pain processes vary. Times, Sunday Times
* They go challenge a demon in hell to cure them of the curse but how can I explain how they found out they had the curse * Alezander already knows, Tyler and Jeremy don't* so far I came up with that they visit a graveyard and they find Alezander's grave when it really is Alezander's phantom's grave * that's part of the curse* I think that's kinda stupid so what are other suggestions? don't answer unless you can say something helpful. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Some beauty must have been described in the idiom, such as atoned for its solecism: for Milton recurs to the same idiom, and under the same entire freedom of choice, elsewhere; particularly in this instance, which has not been pointed out: 'And never,' says Satan to the abhorred phantoms of Sin and Death, when crossing his path, Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
The obtained results show that the modificatory gelatin as phantom is availability for use in quality in medical ultrasound.
They asked one another what she could be saying to them with those frightful gestures which accompanied her speech, and mounted round about her on the tables, beds, and sycamore boughs, they strove with open mouths and craned necks to grasp the vague stories hovering before their imaginations, through the dimness of the theogonies, like phantoms wrapped in cloud. Salammbo
Chalkhill, a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Quotations
Historically the X Factor silver medallist is consigned to a simple future – one badly-selling album of Michael Ball cover versions that only gets television coverage on GMTV and then a couple of years of doing corporate shows for 50p and a handful of cakes – but Rhydian Roberts might just escape that, because Simon Cowell has signed Rhydian up and wants him to rush an album out before he ends up inevitably playing the Phantom Of The Opera. X Factor Betting Odds: Rhydian To Win The Final?
The phantom and needles then were radiographed using routine radiology departmental chest exposures to determine the radiopacity of surgical needles on a simulated patient.
If you propose to become a tyrant over him, ... do your best to poison him with a theory of morals against nature; impose every kind of fetter on him; embarrass his movements with a thousand obstacles; place phantoms around him to frighten him .... The Ancient Regime
Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period.
Tarot Sport side of the boat, 'Surf Solar' and 'Olympians' harder and woozier than on the record, 'Rough Steez' and 'Phantom Limb' walling you in with ferocity and volume. The Line Of Best Fit
But the project is beset from the start by a fiendish enemy, and also that weird phantom of outer space, Zero Gravity. Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space » Fanboy.com
Now, after more than two and a half years of war, we on the other side know that the "phantom" is a grim and bloody reality, for we have known the hellish horrors which it perpetrates not only in battle, but in the peaceful villages and country. The Prussian Mind
All the whole human drift, from the first ape-man to the last savant, is but a phantom, a flash of light and a flutter of movement across the infinite face of the starry night. THE HUMAN DRIFT
A large chunk of his being has become a phantom limb. Times, Sunday Times
A vampire load (also known as a phantom load) is the power that is sucked from a piece of electronic equipment when it is seemingly turned off (but still in standby use) or not in use. Ward Off Energy Sucking Vampires Just in Time for Halloween
While thus engaged, Mr. Richardson's brain was busy with the problem of labor saving, and one day a phantom device for smoothing and rubbing down the first rough coats on the burlaps took form in his mind, and for some weeks he spent his spare time in experimenting. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
What factor may cause phantom limb pain to be more common than phantom eye pain?
And while the thought of a phantom Venkman serving as a sort of otherworldly guru/jokester is amusing, it also means we probably won't be seeing him answer any calls or pursue his longtime love interest, Dana Barrett (ie Weaver). Bill Murray Confirms A Spoiler-y Rumor About ‘Ghostbusters 3′ » MTV Movies Blog
As an occasional break, I liberated undrunk flutes of champagne from phantom place-settings.
This bird is none other than the common barn owl, a bird no bigger than a crow, with an unmistakable heart-shaped, chalky white, phantom-of-the-opera mask.
You think your phantom limb is bad, check out my phantom erection! Gender activism begins with gender rage
Thousands of battle Droids get ready to march out under the cover of their large landing ships, to invade the planet Naboo in this scene from 'Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.'
Maybe in your distinctions there's a clue, aside from questions of style, in how spectacle can become an analogue for less expressible inner conflicts, and that when it is not (as in the phantom Star Wars, of which, like you, I remember almost nothing) it becomes, as you say, simply CGI backdrops and therefore has no resonance. More Aesthetics
The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon.
It vivifies poetry, which might otherwise be reduced to a mere ‘language of ideas’ - ‘a phantom language, lacking in the substance of worldly things’.
Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period.
Researchers at the Catholic University of Louvain got an unprecedented up-close look at a different breed of the sharks, which are known by either their scientific name -- Etmopterus spinax, their common name -- the velvet belly lantern shark, or their street name -- "the phantom hunter of the fjords," according to Discovery News. Lantern Sharks Can Become Invisible, Glow-In-The-Dark
After a little Dizziness, and confused Hurry of Thought, which a Man often meets with in a Dream, methoughts the Hall was alarm'd, the Doors flew open, and there entered half a dozen of the most hideous Phantoms that I had ever seen (even in a Dream) before that Time. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
The crew stood on deck and stared in astonishment at the sight of this phantom sailing ship, with its black masts and blood-red sails.
The invisible violins were currently sawing away at the frantic tune of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.
Drop the cleaning fluid and the phantom scents and the word melange, and, depending where the joss sticks are, the farther away from the cigarette sneaking clerk the better, I'd buy this. A tin nose
The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom.
But there's an easier way to avoid phantom interest that will also provide you with some financial security.
Less common than phantom limb pain, which is experienced by 50 to 78 percent of amputees, phantom eye pain develops in only about 30 percent of patients.
A philosophical treatise that tries to give shape to a phantom, leadership. Times, Sunday Times
It is hardly surprising that our historical hackles rise when we see the phantom menace taking shape once more. Times, Sunday Times
Burroughs is fond too of the word "ectoplasm," and the beings that surround Lee, particularly the inimical ones, seem ectoplasmic phantoms projected on the wide screen of his consciousness from a mass séance. Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
As many as 70 per cent of amputees report phantom pain in limbs that are no longer there and conventional painkillers are often ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
While trolling a Blue Phantom minnow in the tidal water, the Bishop of Stepney hooked a massive fish that dragged his little rowing boat up the Earn, then out again among the shipping of the Tay estuary.
The CT quality control phantom was employed to analyze the stair step artifact. Helical scan was done with different slice thickness, pitch, increment and phantom position.
In the distance, the blue Pyrenees look like a bank of clouds; the air that bathes them shapes them into aërial forms, vapory phantoms, the farthest of which vanish in the canescent horizon -- dim contours, that might be taken for a fugitive sketch from the lightest of pencils. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
Those concerns include problems such as gazumping, unrealistic guide prices, inaccurate property information and perceptions that ‘phantom bidders’ are employed to force buyers to raise their bids.
A large chunk of his being has become a phantom limb. Times, Sunday Times
The rare phenomenon is known as a supernumerary phantom limb. Unexplained Mysteries
His unique talent has earned him a worldwide reputation as the world's most popular phantom.
Still considered somewhat of a phantom disease in some circles, fibromyalgia is very real for the people with the condition, which causes fatigue as well as musculoskeletal aches and stiffness.
A phantom coach is said to pass through the grounds of this house when there's a full moon.
We uncover the brain's role in processing pain and the strange phenomenon of phantom limbs. Times, Sunday Times
We were singing songs from a musical called Phantom of the Opera.
The bell let out an ear-shattering, death-defying ring that sent out ghosts and wights and phantoms and other eerie, unfriendly shadowlings.
The phantom tumor caused her excruciating pain until her therapy showed her that she didn't have to punish herself for being wronged.
Or you might want to follow the route, looking for phantoms on a suitably dark and gloomy night.
He was a Caliban, a monstrous phantom, fettered to him for untold ages, the penalty of some forgotten crime. In a Far Country
Chalkhill, -- a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
The phantom franger dumper has been at it again - my regular rubbish run up and down the street netted a sixth condom this week.
Immediately upon waking from surgery he recalled experiencing phantom pain.
Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them.
It's a phantom study that is completely unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
Paradise is of the highest merit -- not phantomatic, and yet removed from every thing degrading. Literary Remains, Volume 1
He was crying out to ghost pedestrians, phantoms incapable of reacting in any other way but unbridled fear.
It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides 'unorthodox heroine and her phantom double. Fabula : à la une
These phantom parties increasingly became the butt of Sukarno's scorn.
Additionally, for lesions without obvious calcifications or for those with indeterminate calcifications, a phantom study can be done.
He achieved campus-wide fame as the Phantom Poet.
I want to liberate my universe of its phantoms and to people it solely with flesh-and-blood truths whose presence I cannot deny.
Computer-generated graphics for the ghostly, phantom towers - the most radical suggestion to date - will be considered by council officials tomorrow.
He is the phantom actor behind the self-consciously performative tics of his otherwise two-dimensional characters.
They are mere phantoms or puppets of schoolcraft, laboriously put together by a learning drawn from old folios. Shakspere and Montaigne
We called our housemother “The Phantom” because she was small and skinny and had broken a hip. You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again
It is hardly surprising that our historical hackles rise when we see the phantom menace taking shape once more. Times, Sunday Times
The word 'idol' comes from the Greek and means 'image,' 'figure,' 'representation,' but also 'ghost,' 'phantom,' 'vain appearance.' InForum Blog by Sheila Liaugminas
There is no postal address on the website, and after a while you feel as if you are dealing with a phantom outfit. Times, Sunday Times
In Moon in a Tree, ‘being’ is both phantom and fleshly, fantasized and actual.
The only difference is that when you deal in phantom money, you also earn phantom profits, but imagine the new horizons this experience must have opened up for many a team member.
Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.
He is back in the Prem after awarding that phantom goal against Watford. The Sun
The review will cover cases where cards are allegedly stolen, online transactions where alleged stolen card details are used and so-called phantom withdrawals from cash machines. Times, Sunday Times
The two figures, although as real as any of those who stood beside me, un-phantomlike as it is possible to be, had a distinct suggestion of -- projection. The Moon Pool
Today, the US trades confirmed the rumours that George Lucas is to bring his entire six-film Star Wars saga back to the big screen in stereoscopic vision, starting with 1999's The Phantom Menace (because blooming Jar Jar Binks 'fizzog will naturally be infinitely less irritating in three dimensions than it was in two) in 2012. Blurred vision on the 3D bandwagon
Phantom Manor, the carousel and part of the main castle were boarded up for refurbishment. The Sun
So the legal point of phantom withdrawals hinged on the question: if a PIN is typed into an ATM with a card that matches an account number, is that a mandate by the customer for the bank to debit their account?
However, ghosts, when multiplied, take on what is called substantiality -- if the solidest thing conceivable, in quasi-existence, is only concentrated phantomosity. The Book of the Damned
At long last, when each felt assured that the other was real, and not some phantom of imagination, their lips parted.
It documents what it calls phantom aid that's pledged by the US and other countries but never shows up. Afghanistan - The Other Lost War
For example, your pain could be similar to the phantom pain some amputees feel in their amputated limbs.
She would go away when we sprayed teleprinter lubricant (we had large supplies but no machine following two of us being sent on the ‘relevant’ week of training) behind her to dispel the phantom officers who were spying on her. Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The answer may be only a shy, uncatchable phantom, for, as we've said at the beginning, what makes a counterpoint effective lies in judgment and execution, not theory or mode alone.
As many as 70 per cent of amputees report phantom pain in limbs that are no longer there and conventional painkillers are often ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass***, private secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val**, who published, under the pseudonyme of Charles – Antoine, monorhymed odes, the Prince de Les Miserables
It will be interesting to see whether the phantom appears over the next few days, when mist and fog are unlikely to form in windy, warmer weather. Times, Sunday Times
THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION :" Publication of the University Study: "The Efficacy of FARABLOC in the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain.
But was I really supposed to have this older man pick me up at the Gamma Phi Beta house and have our senile housemother, aka “The Phantom,” mistake him for someone’s father? You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again
Women smitten with hystero-epilepsy see phantoms beside them in broad daylight and mate with them in a cataleptic state, and every night couch with visions that must be exactly like the fluid creatures of incubacy. Là-bas
They discovered it was a phantom organization set up for the processing of drug profits.
Sometimes this can lead to the unclenching of a previously clenched, painful phantom, suggesting a promising new therapeutic approach for phantom pain.
A path of undoubtable success awaits Sylvana, with Phantom of the Opera being an exciting and notable beginning to her illustrious Cape Town career.
• George Lucas, often described as a megalomaniac, spent 17 minutes crafting the script to The Phantom Menace. Why Guns n’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy album is the Phantom Menace of Rock | Fan Cinema Today
Unfortunately, Phantom Limb's show rarely cohered into a moving tableaux for more than a few moments. Michael Giltz: Theater: "Other Desert Cities" Found On Broadway; "69 S" Lost at BAM; "Chinglish" Doesn't Translate
Having said this, though, would the brain perceive a ‘phantom body’, analogous to the phantom limbs that amputees feel?
Our issue starts exactly where the last one ended, with an ominous flash-forward showing the Blue Blade, apparently dead at the hands of the Phantom Reporter. The Twelve #2 (of 12) | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
The phantom pen stealer strikes again!
Not since The Phantom Menace has a movie been so sabotaged by an annoying, screen-hogging moppet. 2009 April : Scrubbles.net
Niittymaki backstopped the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms to the Calder Cup.
Then, if success be achieved and the illusion becomes real and transcendental, and other things and conditions merely “innutritious phantoms,” were it not wise, indeed essential, to tell of it all, so that mayhap the illusions of others may be put to the test? The Confessions of a Beachcomber
She had half-expected his phantom body to be so unsubstantial that his hands would fail to make any real contact. COLDHEART CANYON
Later, he looked for ways to treat the so-called phantom limb pain that often torments amputees.
Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms.
They are in a state of panic and chaos and . . . they rush for the bedspring and the lingerie the moment the phantom of empty seats rises to clutch them. Empire of Dreams
In the title piece of Steven Millhauser's collection of new and selected stories, "We Others" Knopf, 387 pages, $27.95 , the "we" refers to phantoms who infiltrate picket-fenced suburbia—becoming "the companions of lawn mowers in toolsheds, of gas grills beside tarp-covered woodpiles"—and who try in vain to join the lives of the people who live there. Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth'
They discovered it was a phantom organization set up for the processing of drug profits.
There are even phantom sightings, a sure sign that panic is on the rise.
She was like a phantom of her former self, her once luxurious hair falling straight to either side of her hollow-eyed face. SACRAMENT
The differential system that rules out voice from the byplay of linguistic signification is therefore an oscillatory mechanism through which voice itself may seem to stage its phantom evanescent renewal. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
He also swore a financial statement, which indicated that he had phantom stock units and stock options.
Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering. Chicago Reader
Likes to intimidate opponents before big races such as kissing both his biceps, striking a double biceps pose, and throwing a phantom right-handed uppercut knock-out blow.
When the temporal lobe seizes, as it might during an epileptic incident, the onset is frequently marked by phantom smells, a condition called phantosmia (not to be confused with parosmia in which a present smell is distorted). Scientific Blogging
I stood the centre of a vast galanty-show: the phantom houses came and went; from some there shone bright lights; the doors were open, and little figures flitted in and out, the tiny coaches glided to and fro, manikins grotesque but pitiful crept across the star-lit curtain. Paul Kelver, a Novel
Bishop G. F. Browne, the then Bishop of Stepney, was trolling a blue phantom minnow at the top of the Tay estuary near the mouth of the Earn, hoping to intercept a running fish on the incoming tide.
That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
What the hell; after Rahm Emanuel finishes jimmying the census, election results from the phantom congressional districts ought to be just as reliable as those from the real ones. Meet Grant Bosse (CAND, NH-00). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
But he didn't know that Xerox created what it called a "phantom account" for his 1985 payout, credited it with hypothetical interest pegged to stock-market returns—often in the double digits—and subtracted the total from his pension. When Benefits Bite Back
The misuse consisted of phantom students, phantom training providers, courses that never ran or were never fundable, and more. Colleges must learn from the financial mistakes of the past
For if there can be phantom pains in the hand, then a pain cannot be ontologically dependent on one's actual hand.
The party says Canadians may be paying up to $20 million a year for what it calls "phantom gas". Thestar.com - Home Page
And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting. Greenwitch
Joey had named a fourth conspirator, but not one of the American-investigators ever located the phantomlike Jorge Lopez. Every Breath You Take
I am tempted to fake a leg injury - a phantom hernia - but in the end, decide to run too.
In the guestbook, he left a note and a drawing of three phantoms. Times, Sunday Times
The patient put his phantom limb on the nonreflecting side of the mirror and his normal arm on the reflecting side of the mirror. NPR Topics: News
It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to call Maggie … to call someone, at any rate—Izzy, or Peter, or even, his name rising phantomlike and unwelcome but rising, incredibly, nonetheless, Con… Hollywood Savage
Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. 2008 November « Becca’s Byline
Because few investors have the courage to dismiss a phantom bid as a phantom. Times, Sunday Times
Pirate station Phantom FM is making its third bid for a Dublin licence.
The phantoms of ideology have prevailed over the materiality of want and need.
The best part of the story is where the physicists basically admit that yeah, given how incredibly weird phantom energy is, it probably allows for things like antigravity and wormhole-based time machines.
The phantom pain is still there, haunting me with every step I take.

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