Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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If someone wandered briefly into the shot, the resulting picture would contain their ghostly trace superimposed over substantial furniture, buildings or people who had held still for the full exposure.
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Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium has inspired a bounty of beauty and melancholy.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
And why would anyone want to share their home with ghostly roommates?
—Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
But the Jerome Grand Hotel is not defined solely by its ghostly residents.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
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Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium has inspired a bounty of beauty and melancholy.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
And why would anyone want to share their home with ghostly roommates?
—Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
But the Jerome Grand Hotel is not defined solely by its ghostly residents.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 5 Nov. 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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