ghost

Example Sentences

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“Dog Day Afternoon” makes for a largely diverting evening, but like many if not most stage versions of beloved films it never entirely succeeds at laying to rest the ghosts of its cinematic past.

From The Wall Street Journal

Today, though, with her mouth curved into a stiff upward bow and her eyes wide, she looked more like she was meeting a ghost.

From Literature

But he was also a professional in the business of occasionally belligerent ghosts, and it would take much more than this to rattle him.

From Literature

Not long ago, a re-armament programme on this scale would have alarmed Germany's neighbours, stirring the ghosts of Europe's dark past.

From BBC

From the expansive photo archives of his living room to a midnight shoot in the industrial heart of Chinatown, Reynaldo Rivera reveals the ghosts of Old Hollywood and the messy humanity captured in his lens.

From Los Angeles Times