Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
Maybe the ghostly energy of the artist does lives on in the art, the way an author’s imagination remains in the ink on the page.
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Modern science tends to see consciousness as arising from neural activity, like ghostly software conjured through the brain’s material hardware.
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The lights grow hazy, and the friends seem to see the ghostly images of their younger selves dancing alongside them.
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Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
Maybe the ghostly energy of the artist does lives on in the art, the way an author’s imagination remains in the ink on the page.
—Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Modern science tends to see consciousness as arising from neural activity, like ghostly software conjured through the brain’s material hardware.
—Conor Feehly, Big Think, 10 Mar. 2026
The lights grow hazy, and the friends seem to see the ghostly images of their younger selves dancing alongside them.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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ghostly
adjective
ghost·ly
ˈgōst-lē 
ghostlier; ghostliest
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a ghost
ghostliness
noun
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