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Its ghostly skull may be one of Antarctica's most unusual sights, but the gradual transformation of the ice that shapes it tells an even more important story.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Back in Setagaya, Ryua says she is happy living with her ghostly flatmate.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Much of the novel comes in the form of chatter among the cemetery’s ghostly residents, and the novel’s depiction of this graveyard cacophony reflects the chaos of the Civil War, raging all the while.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

A ghostly montage of the Twin Towers being constructed, set to composer Michael Nyman’s “Fish Beach,” brought New Yorkers to tears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

For Taran, the horror beating in him like black wings came not from the livid features of the Cauldron warriors or their lightless eyes but from their ghostly silence.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Grave players on ethereal harpsichords,      My senses wrought a music exquisite As patterned roses, all my life's accords      Were richer, ghostlier than peacocks white.

From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor

It wandered further, and finding a golden head that tossed restlessly upon a silk-covered pillow, it alighted on it, making the white face appear ghostlier still, and the wide eyes to shine like stars.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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

It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved.

From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

I stood in front of them and did the ghostliest things till I was clean tired out and discouraged.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

It was the strangest, ghostliest thing he had ever seen!

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald