Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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In a video captured from a Los Angeles home, a ghostly figure appears suddenly in-frame and appears to move a drink to the floor of their patio.
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Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
The hitch is, the ghostly player can only communicate using surreal, almost dream-like vision cards.
—WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
Bits were acute — the repeat of the first-movement exposition returned to the material with a ghostlier sheen — but full movements lacked through-lines of energy, focus and poignancy; the climaxes didn’t feel earned.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Highway 101, located along Oregon’s Pacific Coast, holds a popular tale of a ghostly woman who vanished while driving near Cannon Beach many years ago.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
The hitch is, the ghostly player can only communicate using surreal, almost dream-like vision cards.
—WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
Bits were acute — the repeat of the first-movement exposition returned to the material with a ghostlier sheen — but full movements lacked through-lines of energy, focus and poignancy; the climaxes didn’t feel earned.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Highway 101, located along Oregon’s Pacific Coast, holds a popular tale of a ghostly woman who vanished while driving near Cannon Beach many years ago.
—Paula Conway, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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ghostly
adjective
ghost·ly
ˈgōst-lē 
ghostlier; ghostliest
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a ghost
ghostliness
noun
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