Example sentences for: ghosts

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

  • A hero and just two or three supporting actors enact stories about gods, historic battles, ghosts, unhappy love, and grief-stricken insanity.

  • There's a legend about a place called "Spook Hill," where ghosts supposedly help push your car to the summit, and one about Confederate soldiers dumped in a well, and one about a mythical beast called the Snallygaster--part reptile, part bird, part octopus, with "huge jaws" and "razor sharp teeth."

  • We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.

  • "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."

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


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