Example sentences for: ghostly

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

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

  • Degas' photographic nocturnes evoke a Halloween world of phantasms and ghostly intimations, with death often lurking in the shadows.

  • The ghostly ruins make an idyllic picnic ground.

  • 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.)

  • When I remember what it was like to see them in the wards, impaled in bed and wired, every orifice acknowledged, every innocence corrupted and exposed, when I think of the awful trembling passed by hand, the dry white chemical breath of what was said, the skeletal skin so ghostly it seemed they'd already


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