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How to use ghost in a sentence

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This really very scary Japanese ghost story from director Hideo Nakata exerts a chilling grip with its icy calm and eerie reticence.
A tradition grew up around this annual event whereby once the cake was cut and the goodies all eaten it was time for ghost stories.
A number of players employed ghost writers, who in turn, produced articles which were not actually correct.
The whole thing bogs down to an annoyingly slow pace and then just confuses us with a weird ghost story.
Alf also taped the voice of his ghost to prove to neighbours he had not gone round the twist.
There were dodgem cars, helter-skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most.
There were dodgem cars, helter skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most.
Predicted by quantum theory, ghost radiation is a negative energy field that dampens normal positive energy.
A side road north of Lee Vining leads into a washboarded dirt trail, to the ghost town of Bodie.
This is no watered-down ghost story thrown into theaters for teenage consumption.
Some ten per cent of the population claim to have seen a ghost or some other apparition that seems completely invisible to others.
There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
It felt like I wanted to reconcile with them, to lay a ghost, but I never managed to.
Even our closest allies in the US and UK were shocked and mortified, raising the ghost of the White Australia policy.
To tell the truth, folks, there are so many debates running in parallel here that I'm inclined to give up the ghost.
Rooted in immemorial folk beliefs, ghost stories, as a literary genre, have their own conventions and are a comparatively recent development.
He said he has two ghost gums which are about 15 metres from his white cedar tree and hopes to eventually replace the cedar tree with them.
Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra.
The stately three-storey Georgian edifice agleam with intricate furniture comes complete with the ghost of former mistress Annie Palmer.
All that means is, they're allied with Khrushchev instead of with the ghost of Stalin.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For more than three months after his arrival thousands of the Sioux warriors kept up the ghost dance almost nightly.
Have the Dalbergs no ghost such as is appurtenant to all well-regulated royal families?
By the ghost of Autolycus some pickpocket, while we were moralising, has abstracted our Lascelles!
Why does the ghost of Banquo appear to Macbeth, and not the ghost of Duncan?
But whether it be from you or from another, O Khalid, there is the ghost of it beckoning to you.
What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Shouting would frighten a burglar, or a rat, but would have no effect on a blackbeetle, or a ghost.
You understand a man like that hasn't the ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes.
Today he asked me for a needle and thread to sew the sleeve of his capot which this ghost!
In spite of the insects, the boys concentrated on the catch basin, alert for any sign of the ghost.
The most terrible ghost in Babylonia was that of a woman who had died in childbed.
Wistaria and early roses, clustering in, had but the ghost of color on their blossoms.
But the kind of ghost most frequently seen is that which appears not before but immediately after, or coincidental with, a death.
I wrote the yarn up in my junior year for an English comp., and tacked on the ghost feature as a sort of added climax.
The bad news is that these characters in the ghost mall have us in their crosshairs.
He cursed the name of Hiram, and defied him to appear to him as god or jinn or ghost.
People went in and came out, just as if it had been the domicile of no ghost.
For, with the disappearance of the wine down his esophagus, came a set grin on his face, akin to the smile of a disgruntled ghost.
The ghost was gone again, and its evanescence was discussed with ready wonder.
It was a ghost of a train, a Flying Dutchman of a train, a nightmare of a train.
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