Ghosts
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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India banished the ghosts of 2023 by emphatically beating New Zealand by 96 runs in Ahmedabad to defend their T20 World Cup title.
From BBC
We have been told about the graveyard to the south of town and I feel the ghosts of all the dead in the graveyard welcoming me to the end of the river run.
From Literature
"He's on his own, rattling around in his big house with all these demons and ghosts, and the consequences of his deeds come rushing back in."
From BBC
In the opera, it so happens, the ghosts of Akhnaten, his wife and mother, have the last word in a glorious trio.
From Los Angeles Times
Dr. John Montague knows that he is renting Hill House for the summer to study its ghosts, but he sends a group of guests a much vaguer invitation “to spend all or part of a summer at a comfortable country house” with him.
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