Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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Of course, the ghostly structure isn't a real bone, but rather a galactic center filament, one of many massive structures created by radio waves threaded along magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The parting words of this ghostly image of her have been lodged in Ray’s mind way past its welcome.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
—David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
The parting words of this ghostly image of her have been lodged in Ray’s mind way past its welcome.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.
—David Petitti, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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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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