Ghosts
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“He sees it as part of a reality in Colombia,” said Dudley, author of “Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Ghosts was also made into a hit US version, which is currently in its fifth season, with a sixth already commissioned.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
"Report from Iron Mountain" is a 1967 anti-war satire that claimed to be a leaked top-secret Pentagon-commissioned report — the subject of my new book, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain."
From Salon • May 7, 2025
The biography prize went to Laura Beers for “Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
For our very food we had to traffic with the Grocery Ghosts, the supermarket aisles full of ghost customers.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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