Apparition has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. | |
| 2. | Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me? | |
| 3. | I look out on the brilliant heaven, and see a milky way of powdery splendour wandering through it, and clusters and knots of stars and planets shining serenely in the blue frosty spaces; and the armed apparition of Orion, his spear pointing away into immeasurable space, gleaming overhead; and the familiar constellation of the Plough dipping down into the west; and I think when I go in again that there is one Christmas the less between me and my grave. | |
| 4. | As the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for the West. | |
| 5. | I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. | |
| 6. | With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path. | |
| 7. | All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would turn to the apparition at the window. | |
| 8. | Lucy seemed stiffened to stone by this unexpected apparition. | |
| 9. | Oh!! I just saw an apparition!! | |
| 10. | Tom thought he saw an apparition in a white dress at the end of the long, dark hallway, but it turned out it was only Mary. |