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Example sentences for "ghost"

Lexicographically close words:
gherkins; ghesse; ghests; ghettos; ghillie; ghostes; ghosties; ghostlike; ghostliness; ghostly
  1. I commandeered a promising Intimidad, feeling all the while like the ghost of my twenty-year-old self revisiting the haunts of my affection.

  2. There was not a single familiar face in the hall, and I passed into the Morning Room, like a ghost ascending from Hades to call on Aeneas.

  3. They saw the things and knew they were so, and when the Holy Ghost came down upon them, they could not help but speak them.

  4. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.

  5. They have no idea what the Holy Ghost wants to do through them.

  6. While Peter spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them which heard the word.

  7. When his detractors ventured to suggest that it was his business to lay the ghost or lay hands on it he had one ready reply that reduced them to silence— “A man can’t be everywhere at once!

  8. Tryal, one of the Bewitched Persons was cast into Horror at the Ghost of B's two Deceased Wives then appearing before him, and crying for Vengeance against him.

  9. The Socinians teach the worship of one God, without distinction of persons; affirming, that the Holy Ghost is but another expression for the power of God; and that Jesus Christ is only the Son of God by adoption.

  10. May my body be likened to the temple of the Holy Ghost defiled?

  11. I really expect anything like a ghost to walk when it comes midnight, you understand, but I don't always sleep as sound as I would like, and I hate to have anything screechy wake me up.

  12. What good are locks and bars and bolts when they say a ghost can ooze itself in through a keyhole even?

  13. Hugh," spoke up Monkey Stallings, "I bet you I could play the ghost racket to beat the band.

  14. Nothing doing in the ghost line, Billy," Hugh told him, "so you can stretch yourself as much as you please.

  15. Well, like as not every ghost that ever was heard of would turn out to be as simple a thing as this, if only some one had the nerve to investigate.

  16. I forgot to ask if anybody heard a ghost laugh in the night?

  17. Not that Aunt Susan bothered a bit about the ghost part of it, but she wanted to know whether the building was a ramshackle affair, or part-way decent.

  18. And they will have it, sir, that the pike wasna canny, and they say that, dead though he be, his ghost still haunts the auld loch.

  19. But in those good old times there were fewer writers for the young than we have now, so poetry was more in fashion, and books of travel and weird tales of ghost and goblin, and old, old, strange stories of romance.

  20. The dampness scared me more than the ghosts, for I had never seen a ghost yet; but I had been haunted by rheumatism, and found it a hard thing to get rid of.

  21. I would relate my ghost story, and rouse the curiosity of my hearers, so that some of them would offer to stay at the cottage in hopes of seeing the spirit of the restless Tucker.

  22. Down yonder, the only ghost I take much stock in is old Bezee Tucker's.

  23. The ghost of Danton Hall had been very well behaved of late, and had frightened no one.

  24. Perhaps she is not the only one who has seen the ghost of Danton Hall.

  25. My opinion is, he is the only ghost in Danton Hall.

  26. Perhaps I have seen the ghost of Danton Hall, as well as the rest.

  27. Grace," he said, lowering his tone and looking at her fixedly, "whose ghost did old Margery say she saw?

  28. I don't think it was a ghost you saw that night.

  29. What should you say if the ghost were to start out from these grim black trees and confront us?

  30. It was not Ogden, and it was not a ghost; but whose ghost did Margery take it to be?

  31. The ghost she saw must have been Mr. Richards returning from his midnight stroll," thought Rose, shrewdly.

  32. He is the ghost who frightened Margery and Agnes Darling; he is the man you saw with Kate last in the grounds.

  33. It was a lovely, damp, perilous spot, haunted by the ghost of fever and ague.

  34. I hope her ghost does not haunt the house.

  35. Only for your fool talk I would never have had the idee of a ghost at all.

  36. But now, thank God, that ghost of his own conjuring, that wraith never seen but always feared, was laid to rest forever.

  37. My arms are not hurting me," said the girl, still with that queer ghost of a smile at her lips.

  38. Also the Holy Ghost is sometimes given before Baptism, and it would be absurdity to call a man on whom the Holy Ghost had fallen, an invisible Christian.

  39. Treasures laid up on earth never can afford spiritual joy; treasures laid up in heaven bring along with them peace and joy in the Holy Ghost even now.

  40. This again has the appearance of elevating ourselves above all the other brethren, and of assuming office to ourselves, instead of just seeking to fill the place which the Holy Ghost may have given us in the body.

  41. She'd marry you if she loved you, and were you the Czar of all the Russias you wouldn't have the ghost of a chance unless she did.

  42. Silently as a ghost he stole away, and sought to make a wide detour to the left, but soon lost himself hopelessly in a thick wood.

  43. There were so many guerillas that there was not a ghost of a chance in fighting or riding through them, and for a moment his position seemed desperate.

  44. After the departure of this ghost other seances were held in her bedchamber, at which good and holy spirits manifested themselves, and behaved in a very comfortable and encouraging way.

  45. It is like trying to stop the ghost of Hamlet's father, by crossing spears before it.

  46. Resolutely he suppressed his sympathy for the ghost of Comrade Verloc, and went on.

  47. The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off.

  48. The ghost of a sickly smile altered the set of Ossipon’s thick lips at the thought of the walls nodding, of people running for life at the sight of those spectacles.

  49. As if in provoking answer to that thought, something like the ghost of an amiable smile passed on the lips of the Assistant Commissioner.

  50. I hadn’t the slightest idea—not the ghost of a notion of anything of the sort being planned to come off here—in this country.

  51. The second, that the ghost was no more seen or heard of in the mill.

  52. You are the one he used to play ghost with, and scare the Weightses," he said.

  53. Meanwhile, Innocent died, who, besides other excellent works, built the hospital of the Holy Ghost at Rome.

  54. The ghost was stated to be a large white turkey without a head.

  55. Loder watched the ghost of his message grow whiter and thinner, then dissolve into airy fragments and flutter up the chimney.

  56. I thought you were the ghost of some old inhabitant.

  57. It is all very well to exorcise a ghost by sheer strength of will, but one has also to eliminate the idea that gave it existence.

  58. No dreary splendors wait our coming Where rapt ghost sits from ghost apart; Homeward we go to Heaven's thanksgiving, The harvest-gathering of the heart.

  59. But even they give up the ghost at length, and are buried hastily with scant reverence.

  60. By their light the lineaments and figure of the ghost came out more distinctly.

  61. A ghost stood before Athelstan, and shook hands with him--the ghost of Mr. Dering.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ghost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ghost stories; ghost story