ghostly
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They hinted at a darker, more gothic aesthetic, with lyrics haunted by ghostly figures and existential crises.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hollywood may be ghostly, the Duchess told us, but it was hers to haunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
“Outgoing,” said Oleh Ihnatiyev, one of the fishermen, as the ice emitted a ghostly howl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The algae provide coral's characteristic colours, and their departure leaves behind a ghostly white structure that is gradually starving.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Clara came off the dresser, disappearing and then reappearing right in front of Ophie, her ghostly face twisted with pain.
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
As the light in her room grew ghostlier, Princess Sophia's voice became gradually incoherent, dropped to a vague whisper, and finally ceased.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again?
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022
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
It was as if all the ghosts in Hades had suddenly piped up at their shrillest and ghostliest.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
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
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
