NOUN
- an illusion that misleads
- a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
How To Use will-o'-the-wisp In A Sentence
- Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
- Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.
- When lit, the cloth can be made to dance like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark - a stunt that would definitely not amuse a modern fire marshal.
- She strained ever harder, blocking out all distractions, chasing a will-o'-the-wisp through uncharted paths in her own mind.
- _The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the-wisps and danger signals. Ulysses
- And yet if a writer succeeds in catching the will-o'-the-wisp she will go on existing, elusive and transformed, in the character she has created.
- A will-o'-the-wispish set of tortured facts, emotions, and flimsy philosophies, the arguments are super-charged with pure poppycock. Growing Pains
- I saw it now, a dull orange will-o'-the-wisp bobbing and winking through the trees.
- Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.
- An 'says I to her:' Meg Kissock, ye're a bonny woman, 'says I.' My certie, but ye hae e'en like spunkies [will-o'-the-wisps] or maybes," said Saunders in a meditative tone. The Lilac Sunbonnet
