How to Use ghost story in a Sentence

ghost story

noun
  • That makes for lots of ghost stories.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Just tell me a good ghost story.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • These ghost stories still haunt us to this day.
    — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Try to keep up with the twists and turns of this unique ghost story.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Nicholas Sparks is telling me a ghost story.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Greer has no doubt that there’s a ghost at the heart of this ghost story.
    — Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Like any good ghost story, the danger isn’t in the past.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This story is way more than a thriller, more than a ghost story.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Here, the best back road ghost stories from across the country.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And that’s fitting, of course, for a ghost story.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Arizona is full of ghost towns, ghost stories — ghosts, ghosts, ghosts.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2024
  • At once, he was touched by the notion of writing a ghost story.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • This is more than a murder mystery and ghost story.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • There’s nothing quite like the creeping dread of a ghost story well told.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There is no right answer, but there are plenty of ghost stories to go around.
    — Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024
  • Hear ghost stories, drink spirits, and take a hayride around the cemetery.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This is a ghost story, a possession tale.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
  • This ghost story is richer and deeper than the usual scary tale.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • This isn't the start of campfire ghost story or a creepy urban legend.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Takeshi tells guests a ghost story about the shrine that seems oddly specific.
    — Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • For even the most rational minded among us, a good ghost story is hard to resist.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
  • This is a Southern gothic mystery that plays out like a ghost story.
    — refinery29.com, 6 July 2018
  • What had begun as a barnyard musical was now a ghost story.
    — Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017
  • And then here’s a ghost story set in an Irish pub during the pandemic.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • And other people have told ghost stories about the White House for years.
    — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Each song had a unique character, whether a ghost story by a campfire or a plea by a longing lover.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In the mood for some celebrity hauntings and ghost stories this Halloween?
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The launch of business began with a ghost story, of sorts, Potilechio said.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
  • But California’s gold rush era is the source of many great ghost stories—and ghost towns.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Anyone who grew up on this big-hearted ghost story, though, would tell you otherwise.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025

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