ghostly

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

The experience of pilgrimage became a ritual, and there’s a ghostly quality to these pictures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The text includes an Omniscient Seashell, drinks that offer forgetfulness or remembering, ghostly apparitions, a magical couples’ retreat at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and a desert prince who becomes obsessed with Helena.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

They hinted at a darker, more gothic aesthetic, with lyrics haunted by ghostly figures and existential crises.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Mrs. Harrison called as they exited, leaving the old woman and her ghostly companion behind.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

Undern grew ghostlier than ever, seeming, as the shots rang out startlingly loud in the quiet, like a moribund creature electrified by blows.

From Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

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

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

What I shall do with the young cub I have not the ghostliest shadow of an idea.

From Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor

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

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