Examples of “ghost” in a Sentence

noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.

• She swore she saw a ghost drifting through the old hallway.
• The town is famous for its ghost stories.
• Children told scary tales about the ghost that lived in the empty castle.

verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.

• He ghosted her after their third date.
• It's cruel to ghost someone instead of just saying it's over.
• I can't believe my friend would ghost me instead of replying to my messages.

verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).

• The celebrity memoir was actually ghosted by a professional writer.
• She earned a living by ghosting autobiographies for famous sportspeople.
• A professional author was hired to ghost the footballer's book.

verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

• The submit button is ghosted until you fill in every field.
• Unavailable menu options are ghosted so you cannot click them by mistake.
• The software ghosts the save icon whenever there is nothing new to keep.