ghostly

Example Sentences

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Spieth is vibrantly juvenile-seeming against the background of this ghosty old town, with its tumbled castle and gaping church ruins and the circling sea gulls that sound like wraith cries.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015

He terms "God of Carnage" a "wicked, wicked, deep-dark comedy," sees "Agony and Ecstasy" as a "breakthrough" for Daisey, and of "K of D" he says, "ghosty, Gothic-y, very Flannery O'Connor."

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2010

Color gone from everything, except from larches and pines and, if it counts as color, the chipped-porcelain white of birches, ghosty in November dusk.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't know why, but it's sorta ghosty.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is something, is not there, ghosty, you know, about her?'

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan