Examples of ghostly in a Sentence
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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Walt Disney Imagineering will introduce a new ghostly bride using projection technology in the Haunted Mansion’s attic scene when the classic dark ride returns today, Jan. 18 after shedding its annual holiday overlay.
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Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
Astronaut shoots a shadowy Dragon Monday, November 4, 2024: NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped this ghostly photo of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom docked at the International Space Station.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Also confounding—especially given the three-screen display split between TVs hanging from the ceiling in an arrangement that evokes a sort of ghostly sports bar.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The drama is a spiritual journey of a family coming back together under ghostly circumstances.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
Astronaut shoots a shadowy Dragon Monday, November 4, 2024: NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped this ghostly photo of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom docked at the International Space Station.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
Also confounding—especially given the three-screen display split between TVs hanging from the ceiling in an arrangement that evokes a sort of ghostly sports bar.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The drama is a spiritual journey of a family coming back together under ghostly circumstances.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostly. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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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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