Definition: 1. The spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear. 2. The memory of something, especially something bad. 3. A second image on a television screen that is not as clear as the first, caused by a fault.
Use 'ghost' in a sentence:
1. He thought I was a ghost or a dream and I thought perhaps he was.
2. What new tricks has the ghost played on you, Miss Rottenmeier?
3. They say ghosts haunt this house.
4. You can't bite a ghost or a dream, and if you scream they don't care.
5. I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail.
6. He looked as if he had seen a spirit [ghost].
7. Have you ever seen a ghost?
8. What did one ghost say to the other ghost?
9. Trick or treat! I'm a ghost.
10. He looked so terrified I thought he'd seen a ghost.
11. She saw a ghost.
12. He hit the big time with films such as Ghost and Dirty Dancing.
13. He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.
14. "It's like a ghost is writing a song," Dylan has reportedly said.
15. A tall ghost comes out.
16. The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement.
17. This wasn't a ghost?
18. Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for.
19. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
20. People say ghosts haunt that old house.
21. What a scary ghost!
22. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
23. He gave the ghost of a smile.
24. Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain.
25. He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.
26. Is that a ghost?
27. Let's tell a ghost story!
28. In fact, when we send a ghost away, we must welcome the ghost first.
29. It's a great chance to tell ghost stories!
30. He looked as if he had seen a spirit [ ghost].
31. The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
32. It's a scary ghost story.
33. Is your father a ghost?
34. Injun Joe's ghost ain't a going to come around where there's a cross!
35. It wasn't a ghost, but a real person.
36. A ghost is in the house.
37. I suspect she'll be writing it herself; she doesn't need a ghost writer.
38. Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
39. The ghost would hang round the money.
40. He does not believe in the existence of ghosts.
41. It is just a ghost.
42. Start your own ghost tour.
43. The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
44. A ghost indeed! I've never heard anything so silly.
45. I've heard tales of people seeing ghosts in that house.
46. She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
47. The battery in my car gave up the ghost.
48. There was a ghost of a smile on his face.
49. I don't believe in ghosts.
50. His ghost is said to haunt some of the rooms, banging a toy drum.
51. They ghosted up the smooth waters of the river.
52. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
53. I don't believe in all that stuff about ghosts.
54. The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.
