ghostly

The duo studied dusty LPs from Mexico and Colombia and employed a panoply of vintage keyboards to re-create the ghostly sounds of a Latin America that ceased to exist decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Misinterpreting his ghostly prophecy—“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him”—the usurping Scottish king believed his reign was secure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The subtropical southern Japanese region boasts some of the world's most biodiverse hubs of normally multicoloured coral, but a 2024 marine heatwave created "graveyards" of ghostly pale or sickly brown organisms.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The text includes an Omniscient Seashell, drinks that offer forgetfulness or remembering, ghostly apparitions, a magical couples’ retreat at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and a desert prince who becomes obsessed with Helena.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

At 60 minutes, the production is not quite as tight as it could be; its shifts into Bete’s childhood, and other, ghostlier realms don’t always persuade.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Soon Anna and Vronsky and a few ghostlier figures are languishing in the corners of the tidy condo she shares with her dentist husband and school-age son.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

Yet nothing is ghostlier than the hawk itself.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

It wandered further, and finding a golden head that tossed restlessly upon a silk-covered pillow, it alighted on it, making the white face appear ghostlier still, and the wide eyes to shine like stars.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

No Australian Bushman cares to camp in an abandoned homestead, or even near it—probably because a deserted home looks ghostlier in the Australian Bush than anywhere else in the world.

From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson

Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again?

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

"You are the ghostliest thing I've ever known," said David with a nervous laugh of relief.

From The Rose in the Ring by George Barr McCutcheon

I stood in front of them and did the ghostliest things till I was clean tired out and discouraged.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

Dead rich purples cloud broadly behind and above the indigo blackness of the serrated hills—mist purples, fading upward smokily into faint vermilions and dim gold, which again melt up through ghostliest greens into the blue.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn