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A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
Examples of wraith in a Sentence
They are regarded as a death omen and should a person see a wraith of themselves then their days are surely numbered.
Now, as I dare to say I was deceived, I face each night my father's vengeful wraith.
And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.
Now, as I dare to say I was deceived, I face each night my father 's vengeful wraith.
The Wraith were practically immortal, dying only if they were killed by force or starved to death.
He appeared in subsequent episodes, but was presumed dead after an explosion aboard a Wraith vessel.
It was learned over the course of the series that the Wraith could give life as well as take it away.
He's there to help Clark stop Lex from finding the last wraith form the Phantom Zone.
Although all quests can be accessed at the same time, once a wraith heart is collected the level is reset.
Ancients infected by parasitical creatures evolved to become the Wraith.
Known as a Runner, the Wraith used Ronan for sport until the Atlantis mission and Dr. Beckett was able to remove his tracker.
Season seven picks up with Clark's battle with the last Phantom Zone wraith, while Lex is rescued by a mysterious woman.
When the Wraith's cannon aims at you, go back to the Warthog and shoot at it with your plasma weapon.
The Wraith were the fly in the ointment, the resident villains of the Pegasus galaxy.
Just when a race begian to develop, along came huge Wraith hive ships to cull the herd before becoming dormant until the next time they needed to feed.
And the Atlantis exploration team, in their innocence blundered and woke up the Wraith hive ships.
The Wraith dated back to when the Ancients lived in the Pegasus Galaxy.
During season one of the show, Lt. Aiden Ford (Rainbow Francks) was the fourth member of Sheppard's expeditionary team, but infection from a Wraith attack altered his DNA and left him borderline insane.
When his world was destroyed, Ronan was captured by the Wraith who discovered he was immune to their 'feeding.'
Battles with the Replicators and the Wraith continued to plague the Expeditionary Force through the series conclusion, when the Ancient City was relocated to Earth.
The Wraith were the reason the human races spread throughout the Pegasus Galaxy remained at such a low level of technological advancement.
Based on the creatures intiially introduced during SG-1's second season, these human form Replicators were actually created by the Ancients thousands of years before to destroy the Wraith, but something went wrong.
Over the course of the next two seasons, the Atlantis crew would continue to explore the Pegasus Galaxy, battle the Wraith and even attempt to de-evolve a Wraith to his base human form.
The castle of Edinburgh was surrendered by Gordon, and Balcarres was put in that prison where, according to legend, he was visited by the wraith of Dundee, on the night of the battle of Killiecrankie.