Sentence examples for a ghostly trace from inspiring English sources

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There was a ghostly trace of boyish charm when he said things like "I'm not the most believable guy in the world, I understand that, but I did not do that".

For me, a ghostly trace of Ambre Solaire rising from the pages of a sun-bleached paperback is a way back to the past: to favourite stories as much as to favourite beaches.

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Four iron hooks and a dusty outline: the ghostly trace of the painting.

One sequence shows a still hand with ghostly traces dancing above it, then a married couple reaching to hold hands, then a hand being forcefully held down by a gloved assailant who drives a power drill through it.

Perhaps it's still out there, waiting for a lost walker to stumble upon, one of those ghostly traces of a human presence that Alderney reveals to the careful observer – like the prisoner's footprints in the bunker or, in years to come, the eroded remains of the Goldsworthy stones.

It was an approach they used around the building, letting the past of the theater catch up with the present as a stripped-down narrative told through chipped bricks from wartime bombing, patches of painted plaster from a onetime executive suite, builders' wall scribblings, the ghostly traces of steps from a vanished staircase and the grillwork windows from the famously noisy old women's lavatory.

Burberry showed fine, lanky clothes in grey and plum and pale green with a company's famous check appearing only in ghostly traces.

A mix of field recordings of New York City and the ghostly traces of Kessler's guitar, First Light invariably sounds like The Hobbit soundtracked by Slowdive: I'm getting tears and trauma and a shard of hope glinting on the horizon that's about to be trampled by an army of orcs.

Some are left as ghostly traces.

The infrared reflectogram shows the ghostly traces of one dancer who has been painted over and removed.

Three are derived from commercial film of Muhammad Ali fights, with the fighters' figures edited out, leaving only ghostly traces.

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