ectoplasmic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
He expires in the opening scene, apparently frightened into a heart attack by ectoplasmic spirits.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Literature — the top-shelf, award-winning stuff — is positively ectoplasmic these days, crawling with hauntings, haints and wraiths of every stripe and disposition.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
At first glance, the movie seemed to peddle the classic, gooey tale of ectoplasmic underdogs.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
She hardly remembered when night came, but presently she was aware of the darkness and the mist over the sea and over the rock and now engulfing them with its white ectoplasmic tendrils.
From Prison of a Billion Years by Thames, C.H.
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