ghostly

But he quickly finds that his medical terminology and prescriptions are of little use to the patients troubled by ghostly memories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The duo studied dusty LPs from Mexico and Colombia and employed a panoply of vintage keyboards to re-create the ghostly sounds of a Latin America that ceased to exist decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Misinterpreting his ghostly prophecy—“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him”—the usurping Scottish king believed his reign was secure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The subtropical southern Japanese region boasts some of the world's most biodiverse hubs of normally multicoloured coral, but a 2024 marine heatwave created "graveyards" of ghostly pale or sickly brown organisms.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Would the ghostly visitors from Beyond the Veil require place settings for food and drink?

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

At 60 minutes, the production is not quite as tight as it could be; its shifts into Bete’s childhood, and other, ghostlier realms don’t always persuade.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Soon Anna and Vronsky and a few ghostlier figures are languishing in the corners of the tidy condo she shares with her dentist husband and school-age son.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

Yet nothing is ghostlier than the hawk itself.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

At last they realised the light was already fading; the mist on all things was ghostlier, and damp in the throat and nostrils.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill

Night darkens, , and again the Southern Cross glimmers before our prow, and the two Milky Ways reveal themselves,—that of the Cosmos and that ghostlier one which stretches over the black deep behind us.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again?

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

Dead rich purples cloud broadly behind and above the indigo blackness of the serrated hills—mist purples, fading upward smokily into faint vermilions and dim gold, which again melt up through ghostliest greens into the blue.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

When I went there, I had the queerest, ghostliest sensation of having seen it all before.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard

It was as if all the ghosts in Hades had suddenly piped up at their shrillest and ghostliest.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Dead, in the ghostliest sense of the word,—the viewless pressure upon her life of numberless vanished generations.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn