GHOSTLY in a Sentence

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As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.

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 Meanings and Examples of GHOSTLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ghostly
 a.  resembling or characteristic of a phantom
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  As he moved slowly to the side of the wagon, there was a ghostly semblance of the old host of Tara welcoming guests, as if Gerald spoke words from out of shadowy memory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Glancing under the dark trees Scarlett could just discern the tall ghostly chimneys still rearing above the silent ruin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
4  Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  Altogether, it was a weird and ghostly place; but, ghostly as it was, it wanted not in legends among the superstitious negroes, to increase its terrors.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Subsequently she had gathered, from the conversations she had overheard among the negroes, as she glided about in her ghostly disguise, after nightfall, who he was, and in what relation he stood to Tom.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  The crowd--it was now a crowd--stepped back involuntarily and when the door had opened wide there was a ghostly pause.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  In that eerie setting, it was easy to believe in ghosts and other supernatural beings.
2  While Casper the friendly ghost is an incorporeal being, nevertheless he and his fellow ghosts make quite an impact on the physical world.
3  Well, that's mostly because they don't like to go where a man's been murdered, anyway -- but nothing's ever been seen around that house except in the night -- just some blue lights slipping by the windows--no regular ghosts.
4  Stories about ghosts in the cathedral have entered the mythology of the town.
5  I don't think ghosts exist.
6  I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.
7  The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
8  I thought I saw a ghost, but perhaps it was only a trick of the light.
9  There is no such thing as a ghost in reality.
10  The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
11  He told them a spine-chilling ghost story.
12  Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
13  From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.
14  They sat in wan silver moonlight that ghosted through the windows.