Was there an apparition in the attic?.    From LearnThat.org. 

We were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A ghostly apparition at midnight.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

And another thing troubles me -- the apparition is English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Claimant] Reference

The visual aspect is not all of it—hence the misleading term apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference

These aren't pluralizations, which should be obvious from the examples. (e.g. the plural of apparition is apparitions.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranormal Pluralizations] Reference

But soon a reaction came, and I felt convinced that the apparition was a living man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wylder's Hand] Reference

I used the word apparition because of the ghost-like visage that such a reflection creates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum] Reference

So unfanatical was he that he even doubted at times whether the apparition was his father's spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference

Shake calls our apparition a "gayst", since the wraith has a stereotypical but pretty fabulous lisp.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN TV] Reference

I saw in a moment that the apparition was a balloon, and that the aeronaut was only emptying ballast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference

This so-called apparition is so totally unlike any and all others that it seems impossible to be true.    From Wordnik.com.  [a failure to communicate] Reference

The apparition was a statue of Pentelic marble, and might therefore possess as much value as a treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Miniatures] Reference

Brother Lawrence, as the girls began to call the apparition, showed himself frequently, but always with the same elusiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference

But most vividly do I recall the apparition which stole into my solitude after supper -- which I had scented longingly from afar.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference

I'm reasonably sure the "apparition" was a defect of some sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

For example, in the Nyanja language the root attests as nouns for both "apparition" and "malice or evil intent.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

As he was preparing to throw a stun grenade into the bathroom an "apparition" had burst out of the bathroom window.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I have used the word apparition advisedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

Aneesa would be reduced to tears and she would on bended knees beseech the "apparition" to spare her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

'apparition' emerge from that vaporous cloud and handle the pad in the middle of the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow World] Reference

I thought I saw the apparition shrug its heavenly shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 17] Reference

No, I tell the misguided apparition, he's givingmethe once over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monster Truck] Reference

The apparition of these faces in the crowd/Petals on a wet, black bough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time] Reference

We are about to celebrate shortly the sixth anniversary of this miraculous apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

           Then suddenly Von Rotten was at the car window like an apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 8] Reference

Also in Auschwitz at that time, a young Soviet colonel struggled to understand an apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference

What varied was exactly how a civilization interpreted an unexpected apparition like Hale-Bopp.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference

The neighbor looked sad, sunbathing and reading, as though he were nothing better than an apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Own Music] Reference

 You still felt him but now you didn't have to see the haggard house or the apparition in the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The old man in the window is probably scarier than he looks.] Reference

Mercury begins its best morning apparition of the year as it emerges from the Sun's glare late next week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jupiter at opposition in September night sky] Reference

Hungarian became more sombre and troubled than before, and Labanoff's appearance seemed like a doubtful apparition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Suddenly, with a quick movement, she started violently back, as if some frightful apparition had risen up before her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In the last apparition, on Nov. 28,1989, Mary, calling herself the Mother of the World, stressed prayer and the rosary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hail, Mary] Reference

Mullah Omar appears instead like an apparition -- or a prophet -- floating among a blurry, bearded throng of devoted followers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Mullah's Mind] Reference

The astonished listener related the apparition to Sister Bourgeois, who regarded it as the wanderings of a diseased imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference