How to Use ghastly in a Sentence

ghastly

adjective
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  • His room was a ghastly mess.
  • You're making a ghastly mistake.
  • The public’s best defense against the ghastly presidential corruption that the court has invited is to elect as president the one least likely to exploit the opportunity.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
  • And Maduro has sealed his place in that ghastly gallery.
    — Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Call him Harry Bosch but in Lebanon, a ghastly place at the time.
    — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
  • Some of the images were ghastlier than the raw numbers.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • This last, ghastly gaffe might be too much for Obama to take.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Foley had not, but the ghastly images weren’t hard to find.
    — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The young and the old are hit hardest, but anyone can get this ghastly disease.
    — Ian Haydon, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
  • In a city filled with dark, ghastly tales, few are darker or ghastlier than this one.
    — Mike Scott, nola.com, 5 June 2019
  • Evidence of the ghastly injury is available in dozens of places on YouTube.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 27 June 2018
  • As the war rages, so does the button war, its victims paying every kind of ghastly price in a sober and sobering tale.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Soon after, Justine breaks out in a grotesque rash—the first in a series of ghastly reactions.
    — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Yet where is their deep dive into the root cause analysis of this ghastly behavior in the first place?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
  • There was recently a ghastly portrait done here [in England] of the Duchess of Cambridge.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Both publish videos exposing the ghastly acts of torture and violence that have come to define the group to the wider world.
    — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The Mets have lost all six games since deadline day, including a ghastly sweep at Kansas City.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Buy Photo For more than a year, rain poured through a ghastly hole in the Pottstown Mercury’s roof, staining walls and damaging desks on the third floor.
    — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 15 May 2018
  • Once, these ghastly people made for some mordant satire.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2019
  • But the most ghastly features of the play center are the messages baby will hear upon pushing the buttons.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 3 Jan. 2024
  • What Juan claims—and this is a ghastly thing to have to write—is that some of the students were killed, sometime in the early hours of September 27th, and cut into pieces.
    — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • And yet the ghastly procession seemed to go on forever.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2018
  • My ghastly cries in that hospital disturbed the peace of half the residents of Rongtang Town.
    — Lu Yang, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • As if being in space wasn't hard enough on an astronaut's body, they're forced to drink coffee in a ghastly manner.
    — Fox News, 9 June 2017
  • That in turn leads them to the shack inhabited by Maria Elena (Isabel Quinteros) and her two sons, one of whom is in a ghastly state.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Looking back at some of those ghastly uniforms, Ben Zobrist’s black high-top spikes hardly seem like a crime.
    — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • But even if Till did grab Donham and make lewd comments, the ghastly punishment for this infraction in no way fit the crime.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • Do your research, especially if the home's haunting is the result of a ghastly crime.
    — Jamie Wiebe, House Beautiful, 23 Oct. 2014
  • The Japanese murder rate, by contrast, is one of the lowest in the world, making the news media all the more obsessed with the ghastly details of the current case.
    — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The ghastly details are damning, and the fact that Teddy spent another five decades in the public eye is a testament to the normalized misogyny of the culture.
    — Nina Burleigh, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

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