ghostlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghostlike
Adjective
  • This is the first time the entire family sees the ghostly activity and finally believes Chloe's claim that a spirit is present in their house.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The beauty of The Innocents lies in its enduring ambiguity, the frantic chaos of Giddens’s mind contrasted against the eerie hush that descends on the film ahead of its first ghostly appearance; both scenarios rendered equally and disturbingly plausible.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These aesthetic flourishes find an auditory corollary in Kenneth Blume’s swelling, spectral score, which toggles between sinister and ecstatic.
    Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Are the spectral and corporeal worlds friends or foes?
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That doesn't rule out that other pollsters are generating phantom swings by updating their weights, of course.
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But that estimate sharply dropped once authorities subtracted the amount of phantom investment gains and interest that Madoff’s customers were duped into believing existed.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Ghostlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostlike. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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