Example sentences for: ghostly

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

  • Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • the Child Pornography Prevention Act are our home-grown fairy tales, ghostly adumbrations of the hysteria that swept over us in the eighties.

  • But it's not all business with those ghostly folk.

  • Certainly, July and August can be almost unbearably hot and humid in most big cities, but some find an odd, ghostly pleasure in being in Rome on Ferragosto (on and around 15 August) when the city is abandoned “to the cats and the crazy. ”

  • High above the town, the ruins of a 17th-century convent, Nossa Senhora do Desterro, loom like a ghostly gray eminence.


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