ghost
noun
the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
ghostily
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a word derived from
ghost.
Example Sentences
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A cold, raw, rainy, dismal morning—the sky black and hopeless of sunshine, the long bleak blasts complaining around the old house, and rattling ghostily the skeleton trees.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
Every blade of grass was a stark little corpse, swaying ghostily to the stir of the cold air.
From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead
From a rent cloud the moonlight, ghostily, Slid clearer to the floor, as, gauntly thin, She opening, they leaped through with bound so free, Then shook the rain-drops from their shaggy skin.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
Presently, from overhead, and ghostily piercing the gray veil, came Ruth's clear hail.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
He knocked with his knuckles a thundering reveille that echoed and re-echoed ghostily through the rumbling old house.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
