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ghostly

[gohst-lee] / ˈgoʊst li /


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The subjects are seated on sets that are celestial-looking in their angular bareness, and nearly all are photographed with ghostly shadows cast across their faces.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dishes of bean cakes and rice balls had been placed on the altar shelf for ghostly visitors.

From Literature

That phrase will take on new meaning this July as Disneyland announced its famed ghostly estate will become available for weddings for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times

The one of the ghostly figure with a glowing lantern, standing on top of the bluff.

From Literature

And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal