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Meanings of ghostlike in English
Resembling or characteristic of a phantom.
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Examples for "spiritual"
Examples for "spiritual"
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In contrast, she said, American Protestantism offers greater room for spiritual debate.
2
However, I think the spiritual and intellectual benefits far outweighed the disadvantages.
3
The spiritual community is the Church; it is organized in the churches.
4
She made a special spiritual transcendence throughout the course of these years.
5
That can only be good for the country's spiritual and moral health.
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The furniture and pictures were in ghostly draperies; everything was in confusion.
2
And clumps of trees in the distance stood ghostly in the haze.
3
In the corridor were other faces, like ghostly shadows in the darkness.
4
Two days ago Yezzan had not heard the pale mare's ghostly hoofbeats.
5
It rose shadowy there in the pale concourse, swaying in ghostly breezes.
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The house had been remarkably free of spectral visitors since our return.
2
Tonio glanced up; he saw the spectral figure supported on either side.
3
The other type has increased spectral and cross-spectral power across faster frequencies.
4
Her face in the moonbeams looked austere and almost spectral in outline.
5
In the thin, cold moonlight, the wintry wood looked spectral and wan.
1
For several miles our way led us through a dim, phantasmal landscape.
2
How unreal, how phantasmal, is that grey avenue shimmering in the moonlight.'
3
There are also phantasmal visions, which are illusions of an estranged mind.
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They were too phantasmal and extravagant to enter into any one's fate.
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Far off, far off, the phantasmal stroke of hoofs, rapid, many, unswerving.
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That is, matter manifests itself in form, and form is apparitional.
2
Theirs was an apparitional warfare, and even their biggest victories were signals for retreat.
3
Form is apparitional and passes, as passed the physical forms of the Lady Om and Chong Mong-ju.
4
He knew it instinctively, not just from their apparitional appearance, but from what he felt inside, too.
5
Jorgenson noted things quickly, cursorily, perfunctorily, as phenomena unrelated to his own apparitional existence of a visiting ghost.
Usage of ghostlike in English
1
Lin thrust forward the small square picture with its ghostlike, girlish smile.
2
It was as if the voice was moving ghostlike through the earth.
3
Storm watched transfixed the eerie, ghostlike sight of the plane flying itself.
4
Poor ghostlike languages that hae put off flesh and blood lang syne.
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On went Waife,-lamely ,slowly,-SirIsaac'swhite coat gleaming in the moon, ghostlike.
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The knight's chain-mail armor appeared ghostlike around his huge frame, then solidified.
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A white swan emerges abruptly out of the darkness and freezes ghostlike.
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The upturned face, with its varnished eyes, gleamed ghostlike in the yellow light.
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But the label had been wrong, for they were not shadowy or ghostlike.
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He was not a ghost; there was nothing ghostlike about him.
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The next sound that Ruth and Bab heard was not ghostlike.
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When he looked at his hand it appeared to be translucent, almost ghostlike.
13
Though his white-limbed goddess fade ghostlike, the symbol is as valid as ever.
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As we work and shop and eat, they stand ghostlike, by your side.
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At the gate he paused and looked back, with a ghostlike, still surprise.
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In the glimmering half-light of afternoon the pews stretched ghostlike to the altar.
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