adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
figure
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If he stopped, the ghostly figure did the same.
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Another surprise for passers-by at the entrance to High Wood may be the ghostly figure of a woman!
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The Doctor and his party watched warily as the three ghostly figures beckoned with one digit of their three fingered hands.
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A ghostly figure appeared, dressed in flowing robes of blue and white.
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This ghostly figure appears as a scarecrow-thin, stooped human male in late middle age, which mutters and cackles to himself.
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A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A ghostly figure hovered at the top of the stairs.
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a ghostly voice
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In the last scene of the play, a ghostly female figure shimmers into the room, her arms laden with books.
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She felt the touch of a ghostly hand on her shoulder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another surprise for passers-by at the entrance to High Wood may be the ghostly figure of a woman!
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Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers.
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Humankind may one day join the ghostly parade of defunct species, but the jury on that is still out.
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Others who visited the line subsequently to share the experience were not favoured to witness the sound of the ghostly train.
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The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween.
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This magazine published the story of the Darlington railway ghost as one of the most thrilling of a series of ghostly anecdotes.