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632 examples of Ghost in a sentence

It's downtowns becoming ghost towns.
They were tired of ghost dances.
And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of State in 2004.
They're virtual ghost towns.
He would come into failing businesses and close down 30 percent of the workforce, just turn American towns into ghost towns.
I was essentially a ghost in the system.
We became, or those victims became, more importantly, a ghost that haunted the terrorist organization.
Now around Chernobyl, there are scattered ghost villages, eerily silent, strangely charming, bucolic, totally contaminated.
Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!
I call them my ghost, and by having witnessed their suffering from close, you take a bit of that suffering on yourself.
So in the blind and deaf world of the tick, the important signals are temperature and butyric acid; in the world of the black ghost knifefish, its sensory world is lavishly colored by electrical fields; and for the echolocating bat, its reality is constructed out of air compression waves.
So snakes have heat pits with which to detect infrared, and the ghost knifefish has electroreceptors, and the star-nosed mole has this appendage with 22 fingers on it with which it feels around and constructs a 3D model of the world, and many birds have magnetite so they can orient to the magnetic field of the planet.
You could go to any housing project, for example, like the one that was down the street from my church, and you would walk in, and it would be like a ghost town, because the parents wouldn't allow their kids to come out and play, even in the summertime, because of the violence.
No one ever thinks of us as human because we are more ghost than flesh, because people fear that my gender expression is a trick, that it exists to be perverse, that it ensnares them without their consent, that my body is a feast for their eyes and hands and once they have fed off my queer, they'll regurgitate all the parts they did not like.
The ghost light is what they call the single bulb hanging above the bare stage in an empty theater.
I had become a ghost, a faded memory of a boy people once knew and loved.
Some have even mistaken sleep paralysis for an encounter with a ghost or an alien abduction.
In Nepal, Khyaak the ghost resides under the staircase.
My mother would say it was the ghost of my grandmother from the very first book, because it seemed I knew things I was not supposed to know.
I did notice the news about those parts of London becoming ghost quarters, where the global super-rich turn fishy money into empty apartments and price lifelong residents of a city, young couples starting out, out of their own home.
I called my best friend, Claire, and said, "I know this is going to sound crazy, but, um ... I think there's a ghost in my house, and I need to get rid of it."
And I came upon this forum of ghost hunters.
It is not a ghost.
I still get excited at ghost stories every single time.
So why do we have these ghost accumulations of Styrofoam waste?
And you can see that in this ghost crab, from the beaches of Panama and North Carolina.
I set up this ghost profile and went crazy.
We survived the Cold War because every one of us understood and respected the danger, in part, because we had spent decades telling ourselves terrifying ghost stories with names like "Dr.
But his brooding takes a turn when he’s visited by a ghost that bears his father’s face.
References to Western society and Japanese customs tumble over each other, from literature and fashion to food and ghost stories.
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