Sentence examples for a ghost of a memory from inspiring English sources

Its presence looms, but as much through inference as through description, a ghost of a memory - or perhaps the memory of a ghost.

I saw a ghost, of a missing building from a boyhood memory---something that Amazon might have retrofitted, today, if it were still there for the taking.

It was a ghost of a suite.

A ghost of a smirk.

As the Reader, the ghost of a memory, he does justice to Beckett's graceful words: "Stay, where we were so long alone together.

A ghost of itself.

A ghost of the ghost he had already become.

Make a ghost of every colour.

Ghost is a memory.

Our two stars reappear in other guises, spread throughout the action: sometimes as Tommy and Izzi Creo, a present-day scientist and his dying wife, at other times — and I am flying blind here, despite having seen the film — as a future Tom and the same Izzi, or a ghost-white memory of her, floating through deep space.

As he searches through the ship for the ghost of his father, memories of a voyage to Naples a year ago spring to his mind.