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Its three plexiglass vaults hold ghostly symbols of procreation: an irradiated vortex, the fertility goddess Hera, a DNA spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Misinterpreting his ghostly prophecy—“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him”—the usurping Scottish king believed his reign was secure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Beck took a pass at the late Elliott Smith’s ghostly “Needle in The Hay,” used to harrowing effect in the same film, and later Love’s “Alone Again, Or”.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

There were men and women, children and elderly, of all colors and ethnicities, whispering in a dozen languages stories of heartache and spite, a perfect ghostly mirror to the living of the city.

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

At last they realised the light was already fading; the mist on all things was ghostlier, and damp in the throat and nostrils.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Louis Zangwill

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

When I went there, I had the queerest, ghostliest sensation of having seen it all before.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard

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

"You are the ghostliest thing I've ever known," said David with a nervous laugh of relief.

From The Rose in the Ring by George Barr McCutcheon

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