ghosts
Example Sentences
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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.
Are those marble columns or polite ghosts?
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They’re quite sinister and would certainly frighten off ghosts or thieves.
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“I almost feel like the ghosts of some of the artists are looking down at me and smiling, knowing that what they loved is happening here again,” Arens said.
From Los Angeles Times
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