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.
ghostlike
-
a word derived from
ghost.
Example Sentences
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At one point, a character simply disappears, the last known image of her being appropriately ghostlike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
Today predictions for new ghostlike particles are almost a dime a dozen, but in the early part of the last century, introducing potentially unobservable particles simply wasn’t done.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The stage has no curtains, but the ropes that used to open them still hang from their pulleys, swaying and ghostlike in the middle of the stage.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
