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
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
Hazel might have been the one who came back from the dead, but Nico was way more ghostlike.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
