As the Sister once again stared skyward, the dark fog around them swirled and coalesced into forms, the forms of wraiths: insubstantial figures, seething, simmering with death.

The black-and-silver figure, now insubstantial but still threatening, points at the Wyler house.

Indeed, because officeholders change so frequently and have typically cut such insubstantial figures, many Japanese would be hard pressed to name more than three or four past prime ministers.

She was as pale as Lucinda, her slender figure almost insubstantial.

Putting her head out of the window, she saw Datnil Skar, his figure insubstantial in the dusk.

Again the Ancient One beheld a shadowy figure, insubstantial yet angular, somehow almost mechanical, something out of the Old World.

He was translucent and shimmering, and Sigarni could not believe such an insubstantial figure could hold back the power of the beast.

And then, as if his interlocutors grew impatient, Alex saw a mysterious, insubstantial figure, beckoning to him from around a corner.

The crowd parted for him as he approached the insubstantial figure on the vestibule stairs.

The characteristic warble of the transporter filled the room as a trio of insubstantial figures came into being on the platform.