ghostlike

Example Sentences

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At one point, a character simply disappears, the last known image of her being appropriately ghostlike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

Although the artist died in 1997, his studio and living quarters here on Long Island have been so well preserved by the family that his presence hovers ghostlike in the building he designed.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

The absence of the Owens, the pale ghostlike Mrs. Rogers.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie