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
But if the genre trappings seem familiar, it’s the prowling, ghostlike vantage of the camera that makes all the difference: Soderbergh has elected to tell this haunted-house story entirely from the perspective of the haunter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
I don’t know any other orchestra that could make Mahler’s massive, eccentric Seventh Symphony levitate like this, dancing ghostlike in midair for well over an hour.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
Even though the voice was familiar, it sounded ghostlike and strange to Robin as it came out of the fog.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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