ghostly

How to use ghostly in a sentence

• Suddenly, some common impulse born of the moment and the scene—of its inhuman ghostliness and grandeur—drew them to each other.

  Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry Ward

• Her melancholy rays filter through the night, her silvery splendour intensifying the ghostliness of the scene.

  Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan | Pter Vay

• Nonsense, indeed, to fancy ghostliness here or the passing of musty centuries over the head that had worn this tress!

  The Thing from the Lake | Eleanor M. Ingram

• The gray woollen shawl was floating loosely around her, giving a weird ghostliness to her appearance.

  A Noble Woman | Ann S. Stephens

• His fur was of a browner, warmer hue than that of the lynx, whose gray had a half-invisible ghostliness in the moonlight.

  The Watchers of the Trails | Charles G. D. Roberts