Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
Recent Examples on the Web
Lee stars in the film as a rocker who is resurrected by a mystical crow, and then gets his ghostly revenge on the gang who murdered him and his fiancée a year earlier.
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EW.com, 31 May 2024
The new image of the glowing red structure resembling a ghostly hand is CG 4 – one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
The ghostly protagonists, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), are both teenagers bullied to death at the same British boarding school seven decades apart.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
Childhood friends and physicists Abby (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin (Kristen Wiig) team with Egon-esque engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty (Leslie Jones) to prevent a ghostly apocalypse in the Big Apple.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
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EW.com, 31 May 2024
The new image of the glowing red structure resembling a ghostly hand is CG 4 – one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
The ghostly protagonists, Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), are both teenagers bullied to death at the same British boarding school seven decades apart.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
Childhood friends and physicists Abby (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin (Kristen Wiig) team with Egon-esque engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty (Leslie Jones) to prevent a ghostly apocalypse in the Big Apple.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.
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ghostly
adjective
ghost·ly
ˈgōst-lē 
ghostlier; ghostliest
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a ghost
ghostliness
noun
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