Example Sentences

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The 60-year-old ghost writer in Pittsford, N.Y., left the store without making a purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

The series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties - Leonard, a ghost writer of children's encyclopaedias, and Hungry Paul, a part-time postal worker who still lives at home.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Nick Pavlidis, a publisher, ghost writer and trainer of ghost writers, launched the online Beantown Books in 2023 and has since opened a small physical store in suburban Boston.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

The book was done without help from a ghost writer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

He was the rarest of athletes who didn’t just talk his stories into a tape recorder to be cleaned up by a ghost writer; like Bobby Jones, Thomson labored over his own syntax.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 25, 2020