How to Use ghostwrite in a Sentence

ghostwrite

verb

• She was hired to ghostwrite the mayor's autobiography.
• She was dismissed in 2011, and the rest of the series was ghostwritten.
  — Abigail Lee, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
• But in the mean time, whoever is ghostwriting your dad jokes definitely deserves a raise.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Marie Claire, 8 June 2017
• Why can’t Usher ditch the purity bit and ghostwrite some gospel plays for Tyler Perry?
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Henry’s latest swoony rom-com follows two journalists, each competing to ghostwrite the memoir of a former tabloid star.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
• Her husband, known under the pen name Willy, recruits Colette to ghostwrite a novel to be published under his name.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2018
• Many have speculated for years that Rakim ghostwrote his verses, but that urban legend was put to rest in a recent moment between the pair.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 25 July 2024
• The beloved books have been ghostwritten by a series of authors and published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• And unlike Meek Mill, Pusha wasn’t relying on the ghostwriting barbs that were already proven to be insignificant to fans.
  — Billboard, 31 May 2018
• The speech carries little meaning, having been supposedly spoken either by a piece of software or ghostwritten by its human creator.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024
• One character’s escape is ghostwriting love letters and pornographic stories to entertain his classmates.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
• The job led him to ghostwrite actual human-celebrity social-media accounts, though his NDAs prevent him from saying whose.
  — Brock Colyar, Vulture, 28 May 2024
• Feature articles quoting the CEO are a better solution than attempting to ghostwrite in their voice.
  — Elizabeth Baskin, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• When someone leaked the news that Harry would be releasing a memoir and that Moehringer was ghostwriting it, the author and his family were quickly hounded by the press.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• Many applicants ghostwrite their own recommendations at recommenders’ request, a practice schools try to discourage.
  — WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
• For the article was retracted not because the article was ghostwritten, but because the ghostwriter happened to fabricate a key anecdote.
  — Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 11 Sep. 2017
• Behind the scenes, communications teams often ghostwrite the updates that appear under a CEO’s name.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Mac had often broached the idea to Niehaus of ghostwriting his autobiography, but Niehaus always brushed it aside, saying that no one would be interested.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 27 June 2017
• Dervan ended up ghostwriting McCarthy’s memoirs from that tournament.
  — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• As part of the bribery scheme, Menendez is accused of ghostwriting a letter on behalf of Egypt to address senators’ human rights concerns, and of working to fast-track a tank ammo deal.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• Despite what the booing might imply, Drake’s career has not suffered as the result of his collaboration with Brown or years of ghostwriting accusations.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• In the last decade, an entire industry geared towards ghostwriting papers for students of all levels has appeared, allowing grade, college, and graduate students to cheaply purchase work to pass their classes.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 6 May 2018
• Those emails include what plaintiffs’ lawyers say is evidence of Monsanto ghostwriting articles for outside scientists to defend the chemical’s safety.
  — Ruth Bender, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Teaching online and tech jobs Among the fully remote jobs that are being advertised on the front page, there are customer support, online tutoring, ghostwriting, and transcription positions.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 14 May 2020
• That scheme allegedly included Herbert ghostwriting a letter to two unnamed City Hall officials on the company’s behalf.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
• Jefferson’s concern turned to outrage when two employees of a communications company came forward with documents showing that they had been paid to ghostwrite some of the Tamiflu studies.
  — Jeanne Lenzer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
• For over a century, scholars had argued that Molière could not have written some of his best work due to his lack of education, suggesting instead that his plays had been ghostwritten by the poet Pierre Corneille.
  — Julia Webster Ayuso, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
• As the investigation continued, Kouri Richins hired a ghostwriting company to pen a children's book about grief and went on television to promote it, the lead detective in the case testified.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 May 2026
• Still, a big challenge for admissions officers—besides boredom—is being certain about whether any particular essay has been cowritten or completely ghostwritten by AI.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
• Then for the 1997 revision, Scribner hired an outside editor, Maria Guarnaschelli, and teams of culinary experts ghostwrote much of the book.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2019