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Meanings of ghostlike in English

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Resembling or characteristic of a phantom.

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Usage of ghostlike in English
1
Lin thrust forward the small square picture with its ghostlike, girlish smile.
Lost in translation
2
It was as if the voice was moving ghostlike through the earth.
The hangman's daughter
3
Storm watched transfixed the eerie, ghostlike sight of the plane flying itself.
Storm Front
4
Poor ghostlike languages that hae put off flesh and blood lang syne.
Scottish sketches
5
On went Waife,-lamely ,slowly,-SirIsaac'swhite coat gleaming in the moon, ghostlike.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
6
The knight's chain-mail armor appeared ghostlike around his huge frame, then solidified.
The Sorceress
7
A white swan emerges abruptly out of the darkness and freezes ghostlike.
The ministry of pain
8
The upturned face, with its varnished eyes, gleamed ghostlike in the yellow light.
The Genius
9
But the label had been wrong, for they were not shadowy or ghostlike.
Way Station
10
He was not a ghost; there was nothing ghostlike about him.
Voices in the dark
11
The next sound that Ruth and Bab heard was not ghostlike.
The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of...
12
When he looked at his hand it appeared to be translucent, almost ghostlike.
The unincorporated man
13
Though his white-limbed goddess fade ghostlike, the symbol is as valid as ever.
The Emancipated
14
As we work and shop and eat, they stand ghostlike, by your side.
The new yorker
15
At the gate he paused and looked back, with a ghostlike, still surprise.
The Gadfly
16
In the glimmering half-light of afternoon the pews stretched ghostlike to the altar.
Night Shift
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Ghostlike through the time
Ghostlike across language varieties
United Kingdom
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