ghosts
Example Sentences
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His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
From Los Angeles Times
People talked about ghosts as scary things to run away from, but the Togbe I sensed with me as I did the things we’d loved together was nothing like that, and instead of feeling afraid I welcomed his presence, and wished it to stay with me, always.
From Literature
But the Jets traded him away after three seasons that were mostly remembered for a bout of mononucleosis and his being caught by a microphone saying that he was “seeing ghosts” in a particularly bad loss.
Border Patrol appear like ghosts in the desert.
From Los Angeles Times
Her breakthrough came with the role of Delia Deetz in “Beetlejuice,” the 1988 spooky Tim Burton comedy about a recently deceased couple trapped in their house as ghosts, who decide to hire a “bio-exorcist” named Betelgeuse to scare prospective buyers away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
