How to Use ghost in a Sentence

ghost

1 of 2 noun

• Cap the evening with a ghost tour.
  — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
• Now that’s one hell of a ghost.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• Where are hairy ghost pipefish found?
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• That’s how ghosts come to haunt a place.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• That doesn’t mean the ghosts here aren’t scary.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026
• Then, oh my God, there are ghosts!
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
• Feel a chill on an Anoka ghost tour.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
• And the ghosts in this poem do eat.
  — Mckayla Coyle, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Mute the ghost by taking away its name.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• Not all of our heroes are ghosts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• But are old ghosts testing your trust?
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
• There would be other old ghosts there.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• My parents are both ghost tour guides.
  — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
• The old, loving ghosts are drawn to it.
  — Greg Cote january 5, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
• It’s possessed by a sexy ghost.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Just how stylish is the ghost in the machine?
  — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
• Xavier, Claire, Nicole, the ghosts.
  — Kennedy French, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
• The past and present are reduced to ghosts.
  — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
• What if someone wasn’t afraid of the ghosts?
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2026
• Always fact check those ghosts.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
• Rondinone didn’t see any ghosts.
  — Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
• The ghosts of the Dončić trade can now be put to rest.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
• Then that ghost of my former self shows up on the field.
  — Grace Perry, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
• The ghosts have awoken, though.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• Yet Phoebe is telling us ghosts are not meant to be feared.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Cloud shadows flit across its rock floor like ghost boats.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• Oh, and of course some kind of monster or ghost is added.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
• And sure, Rasputin’s ghost can be part of the dark fun, too.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• The ghosts of his past haunt him with the arrival of a new maid.
  — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Female blue ghosts stay on the ground and emit a very low light.
  — Eva Flowe july 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026

ghost

2 of 2 verb

• She ghosted the mayor's autobiography.
• Since this time my sister has ghosted me.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
• But being ghosted by my boyfriend was bad.
  — Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
• If not, don't be shocked if fans decide to ghost this franchise.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
• We’ll be ghosted for a date against Grand Canyon.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
• Also, don’t even think about ghosting!
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• And there is also ghosting as a concept in the film.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
• This year, one member of our group ghosted the other two of us.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
• Someone with both hands on the stroller won’t ghost you on Tinder.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 23 June 2021
• Being ghosted for that date was a pebble.
  — Patrick Albanese As Told To Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register, 22 Mar. 2026
• The more often people talk about ghosting, the more people seem to ghost.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
• Dyson’s shift to ghost kitchens fits the dining climate in the Bay Area.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Sebald tells tales, that much one can say—ghost stories of a sort, as dark and translucent as smoky glass.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
• That creative design could be why you're getting ghosted.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• But our goal is to get those answers and provide closure for the person that was ghosted.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 24 Sep. 2019
• The path of least resistance is to ghost the applicant and not say or write anything at all.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Guys ask me why a woman ghosted them, and women ask me if their boyfriend is secretly gay.
  — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 20 June 2018
• Kaka was half the player at the Bernabeu and ghosted through many games.
  — SI.com, 22 June 2019
• Anyone who's been ghosted can relate to that kind of pain and betrayal.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
• We’ll be ghosted for a date against New Mexico.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2026
• This guy ghosted me over a year ago and out of the blue is sliding into my DMs again.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2019
• The premise is that someone got ghosted by a friend, who vanished from the person’s life without a trace.
  — Marc Silver, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• Here’s how to stop ghosting your own job search and start working with the algorithm instead of against it.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Writers who ghost books for public figures can’t acknowledge their own words.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
• Trump ghosted his health advisors.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• The whole country, in fact, was getting ghosted by the governor.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• Which is why clean mascaras have a bad reputation of ghosting before the day is done.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Nov. 2019
• After a lot of work, the film got one offer—and then that buyer completely ghosted.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 June 2026
• Shawn Mendes was on the list, but brutally ghosted after just one message.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 July 2019
• As a result, in the decade-odd that dating apps have been around, ghosting has become accepted as the norm.
  — Chiara Wilkinson, Vogue, 13 June 2023