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Meanings of as insubstantial in English

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Usage of as insubstantial in English
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They were as insubstantial as smoke, but moved intelligently, with growing speed.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
2
The Workers' Quarter and Clocktower are as insubstantial as mirages.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
3
They were wood nymphs, the same as Willow's mother-childlikecreatures as insubstantial as smoke.
The Black Unicorn
4
Tentacles as insubstantial as breath slide beneath my skin.
Future Lovecraft
5
All his old world now seemed as remote, as insubstantial, as phantomlike, as this had seemed.
The Gray Dawn
6
It was very low and long-at least four feet long-and as insubstantial as a shadow, but much darker.
Summer of Night
7
I felt as insubstantial as one.
Helen of troy
8
I can't bring myself to tell her she's chasing a dream as insubstantial as a wisp of smoke.
Catching Fire
9
All of the lip service to motherhood still floats in the air, as insubstantial as clouds of angel dust.
Feminist dot com
10
The great trees flashed past me on either side, seemingly as insubstantial as a dream, come and gone impossibly fast.
Paths not taken
11
He wishes that he could go back and tell himself that his poverty would be as insubstantial as his education.
The new yorker
12
The fence was tougher than it looked-itlooked as insubstantial as moonbeams-butit had never been intended to stop vehicles.
Dogs of war
13
If she thought of them at all, she viewed them as insubstantial ghosts, wholly irrelevant to her life in Vermont.
The double bind
14
Those conditions they'd agreed to so long ago had seemed as insubstantial as ghosts in the warm, sunny light of day.
Bloodfever
15
Anyone besides Chadwick probably wouldn't have sensed Hunter's uneasiness, it was so slight-ashard to see, as insubstantial as a tripwire.
Cold springs
16
The Indian rope trick, he demonstrates, has always been a con-trick, concocted from materials as insubstantial as a cloud of incense.
The Irish Times
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