How to Use ghostly in a Sentence

ghostly

adjective

• A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
• To get that ghostly look, take white face paint and a foundation brush, and put it all over your face.
  — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 18 June 2019
• Still, as he was backlit all evening, Jamie xx appeared to be a ghostly shadow at times.
  — Mark Gray, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2024
• Fifty years later, the ghostly quality of the area remains.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
• There could be an unknown type of neutrino, a ghostly type of particle that rarely interacts with matter.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• The governess starts to suspect the kids are being visited by ghostly apparitions.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2019
• From ghostly celestial glows to neighboring worlds, an amazing cosmic treasure trove awaits.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2019
• Up to that point, the boy has simply been terrified by the ghostly apparitions that appear around him bearing their gruesome, fatal wounds.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• By now, more than half a billion people were watching as the ghostly images beamed to Earth from a camera mounted on the lunar module.
  — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 16 July 2019
• As Elsa plunges into the sea, a bolt of lighting strikes the water, creating a ghostly horse figure that looms over the queen, then quickly evaporates.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 June 2019
• Whitman is working through her ecological grief by capturing the ghostly silhouettes of plants near her home that could be affected by rising sea levels.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 5 June 2019
• Nearby Windsor Castle has had multiple ghostly sightings, too.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2019
• Those ghostly images of the late Neil Armstrong hopping around on the moon with Buzz Aldrin are burned in my memory forever.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
• On July 12, the director took to X to share an illustration of a ghostly skeleton by artist Katie Buckley.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
• The keys changed colour as though hit by a ghostly hand….
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
• There were the ghostly outlines of the dancers’ bodies framed in a pool of blue.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Do all the ghouls and goblins come to your house for ghostly treats?
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2021
• Less life on the streets, and more ghostly storefronts.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• Were the green fields, the ghostly cows, the misty air in the falling light enough to make life worth living?
  — J.r. Patterson, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• White Rock Lake even has its own ghostly legend: the Lady of the Lake.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Since then, many stories have gone around about the ghostly hauntings on the ship.
  — Robin Raven, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Oh, and the ghostly version of Benji who shows up on her doorstep.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
• But the ghostly remnants still remain on a path through the forests and ravines of Woodbury.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• Dress as dark as the night, but don’t be scared of inviting a ghostly contrast.
  — Monique Brown, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The play itself perhaps wants to eat its ghostly cake and eat it too.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• In one track, an insect caught in the Play-Doh turned into a bell, tolling the same three ghostly notes.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2021
• There are no leaves on the bottom, no dirt, no mold, no ghostly stains where rain has been.
  — Clare Sestanovich, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Hidden at the top left of the painting are the ghostly lines of a ship’s masts seemingly floating in the air.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 Dec. 2019
• Others claim to have seen the ghostly figure of a woman.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2022
• In the Parker Probe's ghostly image, a dark spot is pictured in the middle of Venus.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024