ghost
Example Sentences
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On stage in Manchester, he laid those ghosts to rest.
From BBC
Like most young people of their time, the sisters also grew up with popular ghost stories like author Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Methodist founder John Wesley’s family haunt, “Old Jeffrey.”
From Literature
Mr. Herzog, who with his intensely dramatic yet dryly matter-of-fact vocal stylings lends the feature his typically scintillating narration, follows him on a journey to Namibia and Angola in search of the ghost elephants.
"As a 10-year-old, I think I was still getting over being scared of the dark, being scared of ghosts and monsters and things like that," he said.
From BBC
The Oakland, Calif., couple were at the farewell brunch when people were advised to shelter in place, and he said the city became a ghost town.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
