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

Jacques said he wanted a scary Manitas, a “chimera” — a ghostlike existence — but the makeup had to remain realistic and believable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2022

She left her room only at night when everyone was asleep, and then she drifted ghostlike through the house to empty her slop jar out the back door and floated back silently to her room.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson