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

The fabric pieces “have a ghostlike quality,” he said.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

Aunty Cloud doesn't say a thing, just floats by, ghostlike.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman