Sentence examples for form of ghost from inspiring English sources

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Lynch commandeered an injury cart and rode it around the field, again doing a highly modified form of ghost riding.

Jagar is a form of ghost worship in which the singer, or Jagariya, sings a ballad of the gods, with allusions to great epics, like Mahabharat and Ramayana, that describe the adventures and exploits of the god being invoked.

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It is helpful to have encountered the dead firsthand, in the form of ghosts.

So high is the death toll in Chester's most dangerous suburb that a large number of comebacks occur in the form of ghosts or hallucinations.

Here, the present, past and myth merge and overlap, and the competing claims on an artist emerge in the form of ghosts: literary ghosts, ghosts from the poet's own past and ghosts from Ireland's past: a young priest "glossy as a blackbird" and a shopkeeper cousin shot in the head, who "trembled like a heat wave and faded".

Sometimes this takes the traditional form of a ghost story as in The Mirror Ghost or of a mysterious puzzle as in The Chinese Egg.

It doesn't matter that this truth appears in the form of a ghost.

"How about I pay what I want?" Eleanor Fink said to Ms. Liriano as she inspected "Spirit," a large hollow crystal object in the form of a ghost.

His past also tugs at him in the form of a ghost — his old love (Isabelle Adjani), killed in a motorcycle accident — who shows up now and again, bloodied but chatty.

She also refuses despite such omens of impending disaster as the death of a black swan — oddly tied to Hester's life since her childhood — and visits from Death in the form of the Ghost Fancier (David Pavao), who numbers Hester's own remaining hours, and from the Catwoman, a blind seer prophesying devastation and ruin to all unless Hester packs up and leaves that day.

In "The Turn of the Screw," Britten's 1954 adaptation of the Henry James story, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, the pervasive evil takes the form of two ghosts, Quint and Miss Jessel, but it is tempered by ambiguity and doubt.

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