How To Use Will-o'-the-wisp In A Sentence
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Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.
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When confronted by the sacraments crisis, Louis XV had tried desperately to avoid treading on clerical toes and had pursued the will-o'-the-wisp of a ‘third way’ that could unite moderates against the fanatics on both sides.
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Chasing a will-o'-the-wisp at night through the fog is insanity.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Maria, on the other hand, is described by her fellow nuns as ‘a flibbertigibbet, a will-o'-the-wisp, a clown’.
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As the years passed, he became even more of a will-o'-the-wisp; not to be pinned down; difficult to track.
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Pale blue light, the colour of Egewe's hair or a will-o'-the-wisp, filled the room.
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He was a will-o'-the-wisp, more of a concept than a man.
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Chasing a will-o'-the-wisp at night through the fog is insanity.
A RAKE'S VOW
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An 'says I to her:' Meg Kissock, ye're a bonny woman, 'says I.' My certie, but ye hae e'en like spunkies [will-o'-the-wisps] or maybes," said Saunders in a meditative tone.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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I saw it now, a dull orange will-o'-the-wisp bobbing and winking through the trees.
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A will-o'-the-wispish set of tortured facts, emotions, and flimsy philosophies, the arguments are super-charged with pure poppycock.
Growing Pains
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And yet if a writer succeeds in catching the will-o'-the-wisp she will go on existing, elusive and transformed, in the character she has created.
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_The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the-wisps and danger signals.
Ulysses
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She strained ever harder, blocking out all distractions, chasing a will-o'-the-wisp through uncharted paths in her own mind.
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When lit, the cloth can be made to dance like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark - a stunt that would definitely not amuse a modern fire marshal.
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Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.