Example sentences for: ghost

How can you use “ghost” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Draped over an empty chair, the subject's expressive hands could be playing the piano or summoning up the ghost of her recently deceased father, whose stacks of papers and Egyptian funerary art hem her in.

  • For more details, see Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin, 2004), p.

  • Just east is the Art Nouveau–style, fabulously decayed Hotel Palacio Vienna, a ghost building if ever there was one.

  • This is no historic ghost town, the city brims with people.

  • But still, I'd say to anyone earwigging this correspondence that it is worth going to Brooklyn, crossing the pontifical picket line, and breezing past the offal and Ofilis just for the clear, calm, meditative experience of Whiteread's Ghost . I've long been convinced that it is Whiteread's masterpiece (better than her short-lived House and the West Broadway watertower), but I'm coming round to realizing that it is a masterpiece on any terms.


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