ghostlike

Example Sentences

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At one point, a character simply disappears, the last known image of her being appropriately ghostlike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn.

From "1984" by George Orwell