Sentence examples for only a ghost from inspiring English sources

Rumors were rife that only a ghost lived there.

But the juice is only a ghost of past glory; sadly, reformulated scents almost never surpass the originals.

He stalks Katie around the apartment and pops up in places that only a ghost or an actor with access to a backstage hallway could.

It would be an exaggeration to say it's only a ghost of its former self, but it has acquired a slightly routine quality and the new cast is much patchier than the first.

For a long time, they saw only a ghost of a signal.

Ancient craters whose relief has disappeared leave only a "ghost" of a crater known as a palimpsest.

He may have lost his job, but there is only a ghost-writer's keyboard between him and a lucrative celebrity autobiography.

The monarch may be a human being, but only as a ghost in a constitutional machine.

And a friend of mine saw what we can only call a ghost.

In a Marías novel, if we learn the narrator's name at all, to mention it would only conjure a ghost — it is an alias for someone who remains forever in hiding.

Using Emmanuel Levinas's ethical separation of self and other, Peterson reads the maternal relationship as violent in itself and argues that it is only as a ghost that Beloved escapes the ownership of both enslavement and a possessive maternity that imagines her as her mother's "best thing" (77).