GHOSTLY in a Sentence
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147 example sentences for GHOSTLY, such as:
1. I don't think ghosts exist.
2. The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
3. There is no such thing as a ghost in reality.
4. I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.
5. The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
2. The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
3. There is no such thing as a ghost in reality.
4. I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.
5. The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
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Meanings and Examples of GHOSTLY
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ghostly
a. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1 As he moved slowly to the side of the wagon, there was a ghostly semblance of the old host of Tara welcoming guests, as if Gerald spoke words from out of shadowy memory.
2 Glancing under the dark trees Scarlett could just discern the tall ghostly chimneys still rearing above the silent ruin.
3 Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come.
4 Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.
5 Altogether, it was a weird and ghostly place; but, ghostly as it was, it wanted not in legends among the superstitious negroes, to increase its terrors.
6 It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.
7 For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place.
8 After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have.
9 Subsequently she had gathered, from the conversations she had overheard among the negroes, as she glided about in her ghostly disguise, after nightfall, who he was, and in what relation he stood to Tom.
10 The crowd--it was now a crowd--stepped back involuntarily and when the door had opened wide there was a ghostly pause.
11 As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
12 No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
13 Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
14 We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.
15 The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
Example Sentence:
1 In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
2 While Casper the friendly ghost is an incorporeal being, nevertheless he and his fellow ghosts make quite an impact on the physical world.
3 Well, that's mostly because they don't like to go where a man's been murdered, anyway -- but nothing's ever been seen around that house except in the night -- just some blue lights slipping by the windows--no regular ghosts.
4 Stories about ghosts in the cathedral have entered the mythology of the town.
5 I don't think ghosts exist.
6 I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.
7 The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
8 I thought I saw a ghost, but perhaps it was only a trick of the light.
9 There is no such thing as a ghost in reality.
10 The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
11 He told them a spine-chilling ghost story.
12 Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
13 From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
14 They sat in wan silver moonlight that ghosted through the windows.