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

Today predictions for new ghostlike particles are almost a dime a dozen, but in the early part of the last century, introducing potentially unobservable particles simply wasn’t done.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 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

A child with no descent line would not soften her life but only trail after her, ghostlike, begging her to give it purpose.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston