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

But if the genre trappings seem familiar, it’s the prowling, ghostlike vantage of the camera that makes all the difference: Soderbergh has elected to tell this haunted-house story entirely from the perspective of the haunter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024

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

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