ghosts

Example Sentences

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The ghosts of recessions past lead businesses to trim not just fat but muscle and bone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Here, snow leopards are often called the "ghosts of the mountains", slipping silently across rocky slopes and rarely revealing themselves.

From BBC

And there have been other ghosts in Sassafras Springs.

From Literature

The rest of the crew was wailing like ghosts, which Uncle Dutch says he thought they were soon going to be.

From Literature

His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.

From Los Angeles Times