ghostly

Preposition: in

• moonlight: Passing through Woodmansey I catch a glimpse across the fields of the two mile distant Beverley Minster, looking very ghostly in the moonlight.

Modifies a noun

• apparition: They included a shot of the ghostly apparition, which appears to be checking the cellar with a lamp.
• going: I REALLY didn't think I would see any ghostly goings on.
• goings-on: Stories about ghostly goings-on at the Broad Street pub have been circulating for decades.
• sighting: It is also the site of numerous claims of ghostly sightings of Brunel himself!
• happening: Track down the skeletons & ghostly happenings on the family trail.
• nun: Around 1900, the two sisters of Harry Bull saw the ghostly nun in the garden during the daytime.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: People feel it as a direct and almost ghostly connection to the foreignness of the past.
• rather: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
• very: Passing through Woodmansey I catch a glimpse across the fields of the two mile distant Beverley Minster, looking very ghostly in the moonlight.
• often: My work is extremely colorful and yet often ghostly and quite abstract.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: The haze made it appear ghostly, even in the bright shine of the sun.
• look: A pale one instead of the warm orange color, which made them look appropriately ghostly.
• say: I have had a lot of unusual activity at our house ( you might say ghostly ).
• mean: And this I do for fear lest thou shouldest conceive bodily that that is meant ghostly.
• make: With Ghostbuster fever in the office most of the SU team are making ghostly woo wooing noises and filling our mouths with blood capsules.