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
In my mind, a train of ghostlike figures flitted in the corridors of Elsinore, followed by the figure of Claudius, cruelly bent upon his evil course.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
