ghostly

Example Sentences

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Mist floated in the hollows between the mounds, where the pale, ghostly skeletons of hemlock reared above his head, and the purple stalks of dying willowherb released their eerily drifting down.

From Literature

The movie ended with George, overwhelmed by despair, calling up Margery’s ghostly image until he fell over dead himself.

From Literature

I stand in the train yard, the ghostly, empty train yard, because it’s now or never; I don’t know that I’ll get the chance to face this again.

From Literature

Justin, the believer, is instantly alarmed by how these eerie tapes escalate from cute banter to ghostly crying babies and backward incantations.

From Los Angeles Times

In the dim light they looked like rows of ghostly heads.

From Literature