phantom

the phantom of things past

He is only a phantom of a king.

a phantom who haunts lonely roads.

phantom employees on the payroll.

a series of phantom withdrawals from cash machines.

She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia.

I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.

the centrist and conservative parties were mere phantoms in 1943.

he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality.

he diverted an estimated £1,500,000 into ‘phantom’ bank accounts.