How to Use ghostwrite in a Sentence

ghostwrite

verb

• She was hired to ghostwrite the mayor's autobiography.
• Mendelson even has a number of ghostwriting gigs of his own.
  — Amanda Montell, Marie Claire, 6 June 2017
• Why can’t Usher ditch the purity bit and ghostwrite some gospel plays for Tyler Perry?
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Her husband, known under the pen name Willy, recruits Colette to ghostwrite a novel to be published under his name.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2018
• The beloved books have been ghostwritten by a series of authors and published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• And unlike Meek Mill, Pusha wasn’t relying on the ghostwriting barbs that were already proven to be insignificant to fans.
  — Billboard, 31 May 2018
• But in the mean time, whoever is ghostwriting your dad jokes definitely deserves a raise.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Marie Claire, 8 June 2017
• When someone leaked the news that Harry would be releasing a memoir and that Moehringer was ghostwriting it, the author and his family were quickly hounded by the press.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• But every celebrity memoir is an act of ventriloquism: The book was ghostwritten, and its audiobook was read by the actress Michelle Williams.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• As part of the bribery scheme, Menendez is accused of ghostwriting a letter on behalf of Egypt to address senators’ human rights concerns, and of working to fast-track a tank ammo deal.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• The job led him to ghostwrite actual human-celebrity social-media accounts, though his NDAs prevent him from saying whose.
  — Brock Colyar, Vulture, 28 May 2024
• Then for the 1997 revision, Scribner hired an outside editor, Maria Guarnaschelli, and teams of culinary experts ghostwrote much of the book.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2019
• Fortune, however, was not the point for Mr. Kirke, a writer by trade whose jobs included ghostwriting a newspaper column for a politician.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Mac had often broached the idea to Niehaus of ghostwriting his autobiography, but Niehaus always brushed it aside, saying that no one would be interested.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017
• Despite what the booing might imply, Drake’s career has not suffered as the result of his collaboration with Brown or years of ghostwriting accusations.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• For the article was retracted not because the article was ghostwritten, but because the ghostwriter happened to fabricate a key anecdote.
  — Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 11 Sep. 2017
• Teaching online and tech jobs Among the fully remote jobs that are being advertised on the front page, there are customer support, online tutoring, ghostwriting, and transcription positions.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 14 May 2020
• His scheme was to devise his own corrective biography, ostensibly with Miller as authorized author, while behind the scenes Roth would, in effect, ghostwrite it with proddings and minute supervisions of method and means.
  — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• In the last decade, an entire industry geared towards ghostwriting papers for students of all levels has appeared, allowing grade, college, and graduate students to cheaply purchase work to pass their classes.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 6 May 2018
• Tom Baldwin is a former journalist who worked for five years as a Labour spin doctor; he was originally recruited to ghostwrite Starmer's own memoir, but Starmer backed out of the project last year, agreeing instead to cooperate on this biography.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
• Jefferson’s concern turned to outrage when two employees of a communications company came forward with documents showing that they had been paid to ghostwrite some of the Tamiflu studies.
  — Jeanne Lenzer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
• Inadequate data, misuse of tribal and federal logos in promotions, ghostwritten hype for Gov. Dunleavy to pitch to investors.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2020
• Jasmyn Lawson is probably ghostwriting your favorite GIFs.
  — Ashley Velez, The Root, 21 June 2017
• Those emails include what plaintiffs’ lawyers say is evidence of Monsanto ghostwriting articles for outside scientists to defend the chemical’s safety.
  — Ruth Bender, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Still, a big challenge for admissions officers—besides boredom—is being certain about whether any particular essay has been cowritten or completely ghostwritten by AI.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• Many applicants ghostwrite their own recommendations at recommenders’ request, a practice schools try to discourage.
  — WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
• Inside Facebook, there are communications professionals dedicated to reviewing and ghostwriting his posts, and helping him craft and maintain this profile, which has more than 105 million followers.
  — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• Johnson’s lawyers said the effects of glysophate had been insufficiently tested and accused employees of ghostwriting favorable scientific articles and studies.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 11 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024