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Example sentences for: ghost

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But in more formal standard English inanimate objects are now referred to by the neuter pronoun it , though in other Indo-European languages that I know grammatical gender lingers as a sort of ghost of animistic gender haunting all nouns.
How could a serious European artist, a contemporary of Degas' and Manet's, spend his time filling medieval ghost towns with somnambulant knights and maidens?
By now, we've turned the White House itself into a kind of clanking ghost of presidents past, its very rooms suffused with the great spirits of those who slept there.
He's a very friendly ghost.
And in the poem's final image of the Holy Ghost at the "brown brink eastward" appears as the sun rises in a spectacular dawn, including the brown sky of coal-fueled industrial terrain--a vision of godhead as sunrise in smog.