How to Use ghost in a Sentence

ghost

1 of 2 noun
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  • The ghosts of his past haunt him with the arrival of a new maid.
    — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The cutest ghost wink was channeled by Tatertot the cat.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
  • That’s what Ashli Babbitt came to be for the right, and that’s a ghost.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For two months, Mr. Prigozhin functioned as a kind of ghost.
    — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The ghost of twenty years past is with the Court in other ways, too.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
  • One such ghost comes in the form of Adam Scott as Clyde, Jenna's former high school paramour.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Create ghosts by putting white gauze over a few of the twig balls and add black felt circles for eyes.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
  • At that rate, the odds of them not scoring the ghost runner in three extra innings are one in 20.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • That the tongue disappeared into the ether, and then the ghost of Annie K comes with the women and leave it there.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The Techno-Optimists want to win the war for the future, but so many of us are busy losing wars with the ghosts of the past.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Had Strawther’s shot not gone in, the ghosts of 2006 would have been eerily similar.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In that moment, Tongsu realized the man wasn’t a ghost at all.
    — Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Get acquainted with the spooky side of the city and learn about some of its eternal residents on a ghost tour.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The ghost of Leger and his crappy life choices loom over Camille and Issei like a dark cloud.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • With their war wounds, the characters of Adagio seem like ghosts of a bygone era.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Light a candle, hold the hand, say the titular line, and the totem can bring anyone face-to-face with a random dead person’s ghost.
    — WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • The river ran fat and sassy, fueled by a recent winter storm, and the water swept by in a gurgling whoosh, like a ghost train.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Taken in by eerie ghosts called the Wilis, Giselle then enters an ethereal world where dance is the language of the soul.
    — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Springsteen’s songs evoked ghosts throughout the evening, and Clemons invoked one just in his playing and presence.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Some sailors trust the SS Bannockburn as a bad maritime omen, while others see the myth as nothing but a ghost of tragedy.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Halfway through the video, the tables turn and Joanna is then chased by the ghost, who ends up tripping and falling, losing his pants.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Travis Jankowski beat out an infield single with one out to move ghost runner Josh Smith to third.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
  • Use the ghosts to decorate a plain table runner or glue them to pumpkins.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 21 June 2023
  • There’s all sorts of friendly ghosts and spirits giving us love and protect.
    — Leah Romero, ELLE, 24 May 2023
  • Guests can walk the same streets as settlers in the 1850s, peer into windows of homes that still have the table set, and even take a ghost tour in the late summer or early fall.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In the twilight of his career, Lloyd Webber has sent the ghost back to his underground lagoon, and the theater feels small and empty now.
    — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Adorable ghosts decorated the black-and-white tiered cake as kids played in a padded outdoor area with different drums and toys for all kinds of fun.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
  • At one point Katherine Heigl's character talked to a ghost.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The tale begins in 1600 with a ghost ship slinking into a small Japanese harbor town.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There are also ghost and jack-o’-lantern motifs available, too.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
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ghost

2 of 2 verb
  • She ghosted the mayor's autobiography.
  • Dyson’s shift to ghost kitchens fits the dining climate in the Bay Area.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The city of New Orleans is no stranger to ghost stories.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
  • But Butler ghosted in from the side to swipe the ball and dribbled to the other end.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Someone with both hands on the stroller won’t ghost you on Tinder.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 23 June 2021
  • And that brings us to the other side of the equation: ghosting by candidates, which seems to be on the rise.
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
  • If not, don't be shocked if fans decide to ghost this franchise.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Kaka was half the player at the Bernabeu and ghosted through many games.
    — SI.com, 22 June 2019
  • This guy ghosted me over a year ago and out of the blue is sliding into my DMs again.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The couple have rented the house out to ghost hunters; one-night stays at the home are currently booked through 2022.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Sebald tells tales, that much one can say—ghost stories of a sort, as dark and translucent as smoky glass.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The premise is that someone got ghosted by a friend, who vanished from the person’s life without a trace.
    — Marc Silver, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Good thing, too, because Air Berlin ghosted it customers right in the middle of her trip.
    — USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
  • The path of least resistance is to ghost the applicant and not say or write anything at all.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The whole country, in fact, was getting ghosted by the governor.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
  • But our goal is to get those answers and provide closure for the person that was ghosted.
    — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 24 Sep. 2019
  • She’s hooked up with most of the guys in town and then immediately ghosted them; the list of those who wish her ill is miles long.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • If Chloe tried to ghost like this, there'd be a militia of Shakespeare gays kicking down every door in False Beach.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But of late, the self that has been ghosting the glass in front of me is not a man with pecs and purpose, nor even a man with, say, a bit of hair and decent knees.
    — Christian Wiman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, in the decade-odd that dating apps have been around, ghosting has become accepted as the norm.
    — Chiara Wilkinson, Vogue, 13 June 2023
  • Dear Amy: A few years ago, friends of many years ghosted me, for no apparent reason.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The restaurants are delivery-only—or ghost kitchens, as they are called in the industry.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Anyone who's been ghosted can relate to that kind of pain and betrayal.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Jorginho isn't the fastest across the turf and Mateo Kovacic ghosted through matches last season.
    — SI.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • What’s more, Gen Z daters are 32% less likely to ghost potential matches than those over 33, the survey found.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 May 2023
  • In the 160 miles between the towns of Eagle and Circle, a half-dozen gold-mining settlements — most of them ghosted out — were on the south bank of the Yukon River.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Guys ask me why a woman ghosted them, and women ask me if their boyfriend is secretly gay.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 20 June 2018
  • If things aren’t working out, don’t ghost your therapist.
    — Brittany Risher, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Which is why clean mascaras have a bad reputation of ghosting before the day is done.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Shawn Mendes was on the list, but brutally ghosted after just one message.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 July 2019

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