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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sort of ghost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has qualities of a ghost, often in a metaphorical or figurative sense.
Example: "The old house had a sort of ghostly presence, as if the spirits of its former inhabitants still lingered within its walls."
Alternatives: "a kind of specter" or "a type of apparition".
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The Body Artist by Don DeLillo It's a sort of ghost story – or is it?
He is a present absence, a sort of ghost of himself.
"It stands in for me," Ms. Castro said, "and also for a female presence, as a sort of ghost".
He still haunts the casinos, however, as a sort of Ghost of Jackpots Past, dispensing funds and cryptic wisdom to desperate gamblers.
It is also rather wonderfully housed in a sort of ghost village that would, transposed into a dense urban environment, make an excellent marketplace.
India, indeed, empowers Deb oddly, making of him a sort of ghost who has access to the less salubrious locations – of which there are many.
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The two had envisioned Amity as a sort of ghost-town when the film opened with several businesses shuttered and the island's overall economy in ruins due to the events seen in the first film.
My sequel was much more comic-book-y but there was some fun stuff that we were toying with, like a sort of ghost-in-the-machine-type spirit that happened to be female and Robocop ends up falling in love with.
A: Sort of.
In contrast, another tale about a writer, titled "The Reader," devolves into a sort of hokey ghost story about the relationship between an author and his audience.
He was a sort of amateur ghost detector.
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