Used in a Sentence

ghosts

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ghosts.

Editorial note

The point is that the challenge gets less if two ghosts merge, because they start following the exact same path.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ghosts gathered in one view.

N

a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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"Ghosts" is a 1997 song by American singer Michael Jackson, written, composed and produced by Jackson and Teddy Riley.

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"Ghosts" is a 2020 single by American rock band Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ghosts.

N

a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

N

"Ghosts" is a 1997 song by American singer Michael Jackson, written, composed and produced by Jackson and Teddy Riley.

N

"Ghosts" is a 2020 single by American rock band Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

N

the second studio album by British singer Siobhán Donaghy.

Example sentences

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The point is that the challenge gets less if two ghosts merge, because they start following the exact same path.

2

And there's just no way that the game's creators didn't know how they programmed the behavior of the ghosts.

3

He teaches creative writing at National University, and is currently working on a book about ghosts.

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I think this also implies that it could avoid collisions with other ghosts, or even avoid grouping with other ghosts by paying attention to their scent as well.

5

Pun threads are everywhere and even the most serious subreddits appear to me as shallow ghosts of what they once were.

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They brought back the very ghosts their predecessors spent half a century trying to dispell.

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One of the biggest advantages of implementing the ghosts as objects is that they can actively work together to corner pac-man.

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The ghosts do not have to explicitly interact in order for them to coordinate.

9

Bringing back those ghosts from the past, is just bad taste.

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It has little to do with ghosts, javascript or the future.

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Then, ghosts would have to be somewhat near pacman, and cars are only influenced by what goes on around them, not what happened a while ago.

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They did mention that ghosts block the pac-scent, so the differential equation for the square would yield different values in the case of an adjacent ghost.

Quote examples

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He comes off as so full of himself when he claims that the original programmers didn't know about the different ghosts' "personalities" (algorithms).

2

Especially with computational "decision making" people have a tendency to conjure up ghosts or perhaps a little gremlin at the heart of a nest of wires, watching a TV set, and ruminating over what to do next.

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"There are no such things as ghosts", he said standing up."Here I'll show you", he said bending down to peek under the bed.

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I didn't think it could get much worse than my former classmate, who would name all his pointer variables after famous ghosts (casper, bloody_mary, etc) because they "weren't real", but I think your greengrocer friend still wins...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ghosts in a sentence?

The point is that the challenge gets less if two ghosts merge, because they start following the exact same path.

What does ghosts mean?

a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

What part of speech is ghosts?

ghosts is commonly used as N.