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

Jacques said he wanted a scary Manitas, a “chimera” — a ghostlike existence — but the makeup had to remain realistic and believable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

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

It was the moon that allowed me to make out a sign hanging over the door, which bore an image of a white stag, ghostlike in the faint light.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi