Example sentences for: ghosts

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

  • "For much of Europe, that would be unthinkable: the ghosts of the Nazi past have never been properly exorcised in the land of Hitler's birth, and the image of the right-wing leader, denouncing foreigners as criminal, calling for the expulsion of asylum-seekers and denouncing the European Union, would make the international storm over Kurt Waldheim seem nothing by comparison."

  • This novel, about a widow who finds happiness communing with ghosts, switches narrators and plot lines so often that it is said to be unreadable--and pretentious, particularly when Rice holds forth on Catholic theology and classical music.

  • The ghosts of Dickens, Wagner, and Proust wander around the lobby of the venerable Danieli Hotel, a former doge’s residence that is one of Italy’s most romantic (the romantic lobby bar offers a moment of rest for the weary).

  • "Manet in Martinique" evokes ghosts of French culture inhabiting the island.

  • By the time poor Taylor stands up to the big, bad ghost on behalf of a lot of little, good ghosts, people in the audience are holding onto their stomachs to keep from retching with laughter.


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