ghostly
Example Sentences
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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.
Dishes of bean cakes and rice balls had been placed on the altar shelf for ghostly visitors.
From Literature
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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
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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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.