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• The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.From the entry apparition
• Cracked porcelain dolls, bows, fluttering butterflies, and ghostly dresses that whisper stories of sorrow and longing.2025 August 20, Sterling Rhyn, “25+ Welwitschia Goth (whimsical emo) Crochet Patterns to Make”, in Cactus Lady Creation, archived from the…. From the entry Welwitschia Goth
• “Look!” As they watched, they saw a ghostly shape rising slowly out of the sea.2014, Eric Van Lustbader, The Testament, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry military time
• And with his ghostly honking wailing he heads out the jarrahwood door.2007, Brooke Biaz, Moon Dance. From the entry jarrahwood
• Belemnites are also known as St Peter’s fingers, devil’s fingers and ghostly candles.2007 February 12, “Fossils: myths, mystery and magic”, in Belfast Telegraph, page 1. From the entry devil's finger
• Strong gusts of wind buffeted the train, and ghostly virga of ice followed it through the night.2003, Erik Larson, “Pilgrimage”, in The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 78. From the entry virga
• The pearlescent moon peeked over the mountains, bathing the land in a ghostly reflection of daylight.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Palancar Valley”, in Eragon, page 16. From the entry pearlescent
• Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all faces while he eyed them with a ghostly grin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry eldritch
• Now it’s ghostly quiet and a bit eerie.2024 July 19, John Kostrzewa, “Beach Pond Camp was a haven for city kids in the 1930s. Now you can explore its eerie ruins”, in The…. From the entry arts and crafts
• It took several attempts, but he finally managed to get everything set up without my ghostly form causing too many problems.2024, Zoey Indiana, chapter 2, in Swipe for Ghosts, Zoey Indiana LLC, unnumbered page. From the entry technomage
• The ghostly light hover in one spot, growing brighter absorbing the fear that is dripping like sweat over Richard's face.2014, Mark Richard Luther, Richard Tarbox, page 30. From the entry squink
• The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations.2010, James Matthews, “Late Modernism and the Marketplace”, in Edwina Keown, Carol Taaffe, editors, Irish Modernism, page 172. From the entry allusive
• Frightened bus drivers in Taiwan have refused to drive to a remote village outside of T'ai-nan because of one ghostly girl.2010, Uncle John's Creature Feature Bathroom Reader For Kids Only (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader), Ashland, Oregon: Bathroom Readers'…. From the entry T'ai-nan
• He came back from death, not as a spooky, Star Warsy, flickering, ghostly image but in real flesh and blood.2007, Peter Downey, Ben Shaw, Everything You Want to Know about Jesus: Well ... Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started…. From the entry Star Warsy
• You still won't admit I'm anything but a dream.” “Because your so-called ghostly powers seem to be rather limited.2003, Iris Johansen, Body of Lies. From the entry ghostdom
• Poking out of her tail, ghostlier than the flame over a cafe royale, was the evil blue glow of her jet.1963 August, Fritz Leiber, “A Hitch in Space”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of Tomorrow, volume 1, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy…. From the entry cafe royale
• The admonitions of her visitor “she scorned in a headful laughter,” and called his ghostly counsel “Trittle Trattle.”1913, Roughead, William, Twelve Scots Trials, page 26. From the entry trittle trattle
• Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror.1905, Lafcadio Hearn, “The Mirror Maiden”, in The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies & Stories, Houghton Mifflin, page 134. From the entry visitant
• On the other side of this double refusal, he is a deject—a ghostly placeholder of the abject; the stray anti-locus of the negative.2020, Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, page 110. From the entry deject
• A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.2013, Robert E Howard, Red Shadows, →ISBN. From the entry lowering
• Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.2010 September 29, Paul Lester, “New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO”, in The Guardian. From the entry drag
• The music is precise but never sterile--no one zeros in on the elusive grime and ghostly humanity in digitalia like Vainio and Vaisanen.2006 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Pan Sonic”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry digitalia
• But enough prose — you must come see tree barks, ghostly beech and checkered tupelo, corn-flakey wild cherry, striated franklinia, and dozens more.2000 December 13, Al Cook, “Early winter offers beauty to visitors at Dawes”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 4D, column 3. From the entry corn-flakey
• In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011. From the entry double exposure
• Nothing, but his memory deteriorated and he was assaulted by ghostly legions of deja vus and often woke not knowing where he was.1966, Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman, published 1999, page 187. From the entry deja vus
• It was the height of Covid: New York had been decimated by the disease, makeshift morgues and a ghostly city abandoned by anyone with the means to leave.2022 August 25, Emily Maitlis, “I’m not a disgruntled ex-BBC employee – but when an agent of the Tory party decides the broadcaster’s…. From the entry bestloved
• When he went back inside the warwagon, the audio monitors were quivering with the ghostly echoes of automobile engines firing up and voices raised in excited exchanges.2014, Don Pendleton, Savage Fire, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry warwagon
• They are white and ghostly because the only hairs left over large parts of their bodies are the white remnant stubs of the original, long black and dark-brown coat.2012, Jerry C. Haigh, Of Moose and Men: A Wildlife Vet's Pursuit of the World's Largest Deer, →ISBN. From the entry ghost moose
• A thick layer of mist, gray and ghostly in the predawn glow, emanated from the water, as if witchfire burned upon the surface of the liquid.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 38. From the entry predawn
• Apparently it had been too much; for his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wisps of dreams.1987, John E. Woods, Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer=Das Parfum, Pocket Books, page 163. From the entry wisp
• There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived subcults and replicated them at odd intervals.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry subcult
• A small-sized book, with a clearly printed assembly of mainly traditional tales and verse for the very young (say four to seven) on ghostly or witchish themes.1967, Naomi Lewis, editor, The Best Children's Books. From the entry witchish
• The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell. From the entry stook
• This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostly rocks that can reach several stories high.2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN. From the entry rock

Meaning of ghostly

1. adjective Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
2. adjective Spooky; frightening.
3. adjective Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

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Questions about ghostly in a sentence

How do you use ghostly in a sentence?

Ghostly is used as an adjective. For example: “The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.”

What is a short sentence with ghostly?

“a ghostly confessor”

What does ghostly mean?

Ghostly means of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.