It was odd, but they weren't really there, just hovering, insubstantial shadows.

He approached the insubstantial shadow.

Are we as insubstantial as those shadows?

The fence, its shadow so dark in the minds of all who had lived within its bounds, now still and harmless, invisible, insubstantial.

Nestling there was a black shadow, circular and insubstantial.

A whisper of sensation, a slight ghostly tug-the knife was an insubstantial shadow.

Around her, the voidmarks faded, becoming insubstantial shadows of what they had been.

An idea, faint and insubstantial as an evening shadow came to Justin as he stood studying pieces of the broken ski.

The dragon was a creature of cloud and of shadow; insubstantial, yet granted a terrible substance.

All that had gone before this moment were shadows, flimsy and insubstantial, and this was real life.