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Sentence Examples In the span of a few short minutes, her skin had become a ghastly shade of blue and she felt deathly cold. They are ghastly chrome and stripped pine affairs with all the atmosphere of a self-assembly wardrobe. She must be one of those people who can view a ghastly house and see its potential. His nose is still the defiant beak it was when I first met him, when we were both thirteen and bullied at a new and ghastly school. After breakfast I would go to the house matron who would paint ghastly looking stuff on my chilblains which were open almost to the bone. Unfortunately for us, we have only begun to witness the consequences of this ghastly misuse of unaccountable power. Oh, and you should hear the ghastly screaming noise his girlfriend makes at night. You can just imagine the Oxbridge types in cardigans praying this whole ghastly fad would soon blow over. How do people develop such a ghastly attitude, such an unbending devotion to rules? For all its vaunted economic metal-bashing success as a homogenous nation, Germany has been an unmitigated, ghastly failure. I'm absolutely heartsick at the never-ending stream of ghastly news and pictures from New Orleans. The other ghastly affectation, which is particular to young women, is vocal fry. The Lions' performance in the first test in Christchurch was ghastly at best, while the All Blacks were, given the conditions, spotless. With rumors of hauntings and ghosts, Kingdom Hospital has a ghastly standing in the community. To make matters worse, the school belonged to a ghastly, gruesome headmaster named Mr Dowd. Then the Devil suddenly turned and looked straight in our direction and pointed right at us and started laughing a ghastly hellish devil laugh. It arrived in the mail a few weeks later, and I opened it up only to receive a hellish, ghastly, devastating shock. So here we are, on some ghastly winter morning in a glass and concrete office block on the North Circular. As the thunder of the guns finally subsided, thick clouds of sulfureous gunsmoke drifted away to reveal a ghastly scene of carnage. And when I say ghastly, I mean the presentation and packaging, not the actual music. Show More Sentences They had ghastly visions of the boys in the hood heading for their neighborhoods next. I caught sight of my ghastly, sallow, unshaven fizzog in the big bathroom mirror this evening. This confirms my long-held suspicion that garden centres are every bit as indefensibly soulless and ghastly as out-of-town DIY superstores. Given what a generally ghastly, self-obsessed and conformist experience being a teenager is, this should come as something of a relief. He was damp and filthy and his little clothing hung half off him, but I could see nothing but the ghastly maiming to his eyes. Yes, I was that person who wore purple cord dungarees and a purple jumper, like some ghastly walking advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk. After two fairly ghastly days at work, a dose of high culture was exactly what my frazzled out little brain was crying out for. He waited in ghastly silence under the stairs as the doors flung open, sending in a gelid breeze. Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged. The door swung open, and poor Jelvin's mother's eyes beheld the most ghastly sight they would ever see. The more spectacular and ghastly the terrorist deed, the greater the concentration of minds. India has had plenty of ghastly crimes, but this was arguably the worst of the lot. Thus, even the book's most ghastly events are stripped of their horror, and so of their dramatic power as well. So many reports were prepared of the ghastly crime against humanity and still that work is going on. But when we looked up, the fires and smoke shifted from ghastly spectacle to specific human horror. For others it was a slaughter of the innocents, a ghastly reminder of the horrors and insanity of war. When perpetrators of ghastly crimes are tried, we almost always hear the victims' families' calls for vengeance. Transfixed, discomforted, we can't turn away from the spectacle as it lurches into even more ghastly territory. Pale full pink lips hardly contrasted to the ghastly white fair skin on his face. Her skin had a ghastly gray pallor, with dark smudges of sleeplessness under her eyes. Show More Sentences Slowly, Sam turned his head to catch a glimpse of ghastly pale skin and long white hair decorated around a bright gem-like eye. If her face was pale before, it was nothing compared to the ghastly appearance at the moment. The flow of tears finally ended and some color returned to her ghastly, pale face. Her mother's eyes widened when she read the signature, and her face turned a ghastly shade of white. Therefore, I shall proceed forthwith to the essentials of the matter and preclude contemplation of such ghastly departures from proper form. With his ghastly haircut and appalling dress sense, and his strange mannerisms, he is, nevertheless a giant of a man. Such moments are unpleasant but are not as ghastly as having to do it deliberately. She is confined to her bed with ghastly old-fashioned furniture and state-supermarket fare. The prospect of the team splitting up and going their separate ways is too ghastly to contemplate. Hopefully it will embarrass those involved as they will have to travel into school on a ghastly coloured pink bus. I pointed out that apart from the colours being ghastly, they were also dangerous for children. I can't get the images out of my mind and this ghastly sick feeling inside my stomach. When I started to take photographs they were all ghastly, except by accident. It may sound simple but the implications of any fuel price hike are always too ghastly to contemplate. She works in the kitchen, and sometimes she cleans the chamber pots in the house, which I would find downright ghastly and appalling. Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals. Elsewhere, Medieval Molly will show people around the ghastly ale houses of York on her Hallowe'en pub crawl. I got used to sordid digs, ghastly dressing rooms and tatty restaurants in Pitsville. But at normal conversational speed its ghastly sequence of four diphthongized long vowels sounds something like ah-ee-yay-ee-yee-yay-ee. With its eyes closed, jaws wide apart and its entire armory exposed in a ghastly gummy smile, its head looked like a necklace of death. Show More Sentences An effort is under way to protect former evacuees from making ghastly discoveries as they return to their homes. A minute mistake, an error of judgement, is all that it takes for a ghastly mishap to occur, resulting in death or worse, a life-long disability. It's one of those ghastly dramedies that misses the mark by a country mile. She had gained weight and though her skin lost its glowing radiance, it wasn't ghastly pale anymore. Surrounded by ghastly Raksasas who bore all kinds of weapons, he stormed at Rama. Presumably the change in management accounts for the ghastly redesign of the bar and restaurant at Perth Theatre. He is suffering from a ghastly disease for which there is no treatment, let alone a cure. For the odours in these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English. The film was atmospheric, ghastly, and filled with all kinds of creepy poltergeists. His black hair was drawn up in thick spikes, and he had a sallow face which was a ghastly white. I know that with all the ghastly images on TV and tawdry clothing worn by most that bad messages are sent to the young mind. On May 30, 1431 she was executed in the most ghastly way, she was burned at the stake in the Rouen marketplace. It was like some sort of ghastly empowerment group, of thousands, except it was being chaired by a bald ape who ran hither and yon. It is ghastly for those who tried so hard to make the model work and who have now lost their jobs. So if that was a nightmare this will be too ghastly too contemplate. There was no mistaking those ghastly eyes and pale white skin. From her ghastly pale face, Tom can tell that she was not healthy at all. He is fixed on this ghastly image, this odd aesthetic object. Her lips were shrivelled and pale, her skin a ghastly white. Her face was pale and ghastly, her eyes leaking tears faster and faster. Show More Sentences Liberalism appears blind to its own forms of self-assertion and aggression, and hence to its own part in the generation of this ghastly phenomenon. At a giveaway price, it went to a development company who created what is now the Broadgate centre, a fairly ghastly set of offices with a few shops thrown in. They appeared on the dreaded bed of spinach, which is always ghastly. We went to Venice a few days later and it was full of dirty pigeons and busloads of ghastly American tourists shrieking at each other like fishwives. He miscounted and for a ghastly moment thought he had overshot the seventh floor and was about to be turned upside down or mangled in the winding gear. The ghastly sight of mutilated corpses disinterred from mass graves is psychologically incompatible with calculations about scarce resources, opportunity costs and trade-offs. The dismal mumblings of everyday business in the House of Commons, the creaking pomposity of the Lords, the ghastly flummery of the state opening are overlooked. Depending on your viewpoint, this was either a ghastly, sickly-sweet, cheaply made sitcom of the worst kind, or a harmless slice of apple-pie America. Neds, or chavs, who prefer music by Eminem and are typified by the ghastly Little Britain character Vicky Pollard, right, are the other dominant group. The blood flowed and showed ghastly red against his pale skin. Believing in literature means saying that the ghastly regime holding sway over your country is altogether insipid, compared to literature in all its funereal majesty. She replied that she had never heard of such a ghastly deed, and, consequently, she had no choice but to return my annual stipend unendorsed and uncashed. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. So begins a wholly untraditional murder mystery in which her neighbours on Wisteria Lane try to discover why a seemingly contented woman would do such a ghastly thing. She becomes a nervous wreck and suffers from ghastly nightmares. His face was ghastly white and his eyes were black and beady. There have been a number of wedding comedies of late, which tend to be variations on the theme of ghastly relatives, misbehaviour at the reception and pre-nuptial disasters. After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them. It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France. Like carina, she remembers a ghastly scene once the American soldiers withdrew. Show More Sentences It is a vast style improvement on beach wear and ghastly ski wear. The scenario was made so ghastly and obtrusive that I guess most women and kids would be too frightened to try eating out at the prison-like eatery. Her novel, therefore, focused on the ghastly points of slavery, including the whippings, beatings, and forced sexual encounters brought upon slaves by their masters. To use one of Cowell's favorite digs from throughout the years, they were ghastly. Again and again, liberal Hollywood has to go through the ghastly ritual of ennobling people before it can allow them to become recognizably human. Every time I've looked in the mirror, I'm this pale, ghastly thing. The blue vein was extremely easy to see in his ghastly pale skin. Although maybe the show's ghastly appeal may attract voyeuristic interest. It would be too ghastly to contemplate the outcome of such an action. And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent. Soon, however, the ghastly spectacle was to erupt on the streets itself. There is no way for us to escape this horrible, ghastly death. One Kansas farmer lined his field with ghastly wind ornaments, rough cut from sheet metal and painted with slogans mocking liberal causes and government tyranny. It looked as if they had picked up bedroom tips from the brothel with a ghastly selection of bedside lamps, pillows and bedcovers. Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact. But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money. It would never do to turn up overmerry, plus the fact that he was expected to make a speech on this ghastly occasion. Your spots are nothing compared to my ghastly rheumaticky pains behind the knees. Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street. Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer. Show More Sentences In fact, this was just as well as the other runners all piled up into a ghastly stramash at the next fence. This particular ghastly grimace belongs to a California Swellshark which lies in rocky crevices, waiting to ambush fish and crabs. We were driving along and watched this ghastly pink horse box as it got stuck. We may have outlawed ghastly foie gras, veal crates and the like, but we are not averse to sending livestock abroad to endure the torture. But ghastly cradle snatcher Ella with her too-close eyes has left him with very little choice. This is why Towny Tony and his ghastly crew want to wreck it. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. It was a ghastly morning, with the rain beating down in sheets. For an oppressed people this final act in the fading daylight, the wrenching down of this ghastly symbol of the regime, is their Berlin Wall moment. I cannot imagine any future for me other than a ghastly one. This captain, played with ghastly vehemence by veteran heldentenor Wolfgang Schmidt, was a sight to behold, grotesquely overweight in suspenders and sporting fat-man falsies. It's belted waists and pencil skirts again, which means the ghastly panty-girdles and roll-ons have returned, only this time they're called control knickers. Public international law deals extensively and increasingly with criminal conduct that is heinous and ghastly enough to affect entire societies and regions. So there I was feeling totally gutted by the whole ghastly business. Bevis, the homicidal barber who sings The Lumberjack Song in a Monty Python sketch, had spent five ghastly years at the Hairdressers' Training Centre at Totnes. The novel puts Gunther right in the middle of a ghastly battle between Serbs and Croats and some of the worst atrocities that one has ever heard or read about. Examples from Classical Literature Dr. Harriman has explained, with the authority of an expert, these ghastly growths. Through that ghastly fourteen days we had slogged dully south away from Mons, ever getting nearer Paris. Brennan was upon one knee near the central window, a smoking gun in his hand, a red welt showing ghastly across his cheek. Or look around to see if any of the party or the pack was rolling down over the spareribs of that ghastly skeleton. His pea green visage assumed a more ghastly hue, and the expression of his eyes became absolutely blasting. If half the stories one heard were true there were some pretty ghastly prisons away in South and East Germany. Rockingham was forgotten with a suddenness and completeness that was almost ghastly. The poor fellow had wrapped the end of his pugaree round his ghastly wound. His passion was wrestling with a ghastly doubt, but it was of the kind that dies hard. From behind the first keened once more that ghastly and smothered escape of suffering, scarcely audible. Every man nudged his neighbor, and the aguish, blue-eyed boy grinned in a ghastly, self-satisfied way. At intervals an unnatural, ghastly light as from rifted clouds swiftly driving overhead passes across the scene. She laughed when she remembered her ghastly fear of the white lady's death-grip! The flashlight limned a ghastly, obscenely fat body and a long tapering tail. It was the appearance of damar Greefe on the platform of the tower, armed with binoculars, which awakened me to the ghastly truth. They formed a ghastly sight when they were pitted in what proved to be the final clash. Lyman would only think it a bit of ghastly humor that need not have been repeated. They belonged to the species known as the tiger shark, and bore no resemblance to our ghastly visitor of the preceding evening. There is no halfway business of ghastly wounds which foredoom survival as a cripple. Sometimes a shell explosion does a ghastly bit of disinterment, but I saw nothing unpleasant on this occasion. Show More Sentences If I have to confess the truth to you, that valley is to me a ghastly and turgid memory. A person's face looks ghastly by the greenish light of a mercury-vapor lamp. Women have nursed the messily ill and dying, and have tended ghastly wounds during ages of time. So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon. To the ghastly Morgue are conveyed the unowned dead of every description that are discovered in or near Paris. No doubt the Notus recognised some of their relatives amid the ghastly relics. Having ascertained that Thames was at his heels, he hurried with his ghastly burthen down seacoal Lane. Centralia happened to be the place where the tree of anti-labor propaganda first bore its ghastly fruit. Mr. Chizzy felt as though he were acting in some ghastly, nightmarish dream. Sometimes we have to face it, ghastly and awful, but from time to time it gives us a glimpse into the indomitability of the human spirit. It is a ghastly business, quite beyond words, this schooling. Her face was ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin. Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. The Duke's beard had turned more aggressively red than ever against his ghastly white face. Does not a ghastly air, a charnel breath, hover about us both? I was afraid he would ask me to give him the berth in some ghastly jocular hint that I could not refuse to take. If you have any comic relief for this ghastly opera let me have it. In the second place, it is, in a ghastly sense, self-centered! Eleazar was lying pale and with ghastly features in his bed. That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect. Show More Sentences His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously. Into his voice came a tone of exultation indescribably ghastly. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks. The pain in the marshal's face became a ghastly thing to see. These blunders culminated in a ghastly mistake on the field. Omega named it The grinner, because of its habitual and ghastly smile. For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English. The four old faces then hover over teacups like a company of ghastly cherubim, Mrs. He heard mutters of amazement at the ghastly damage wrought, and was drenched with his own blood. The ghastly desolation of the place was as tremendously complete as if Dor'e had furnished the working-plans for it. A street lamp directly opposite threw a wan and ghastly light upon the wet pavement and the fronts of the houses. I saw him later, during the battle of Loos, after its ghastly failure. After the thudding of the bodies had ended the silence became ghastly. To an uninitiated onlooker, nothing could have been more ghastly or absurd. There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion. The Indian turned his ghastly face toward the speaker, and fastened his dark eyes on him, steadily, but vacantly. At the same time it increased the presumption that there was a ghastly death's-head lurking behind it. He saw the perambulating corpses, the ghastly death's heads of men who labored in the dye-rooms. Nothing seemed before me but a jet gloom, now and then made ghastly by flashes of redness. The ghastly little skull-cap showed forth its wanness rigidly. Show More Sentences There was that ghastly feeling of lunging forward to weightlessness. That ghastly, temporary smartness which is a kind of whited sepulchre! The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. The image itself was very crude of workmanship and singularly ghastly. The ghastly specter Death, the stern king Yama, Awaiteth all of us. I said to myself as I saw the ghastly pallor of her face contrasting with her brown hair, and heard the guttural tones of her voice. I inquired, still preserving my external composure, in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange, exaggerated manner. What is that ghastly face looking out balefully after him from behind the arras? But her paralyzed muscles refused to respond, and she stood mute and rigid, staring with ghastly countenance at the living death creeping toward them. At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust. The two ghastly casts on the shelf were not far from him, and their expression was as if they were making a stupid apoplectic attempt to attend to the conversation. The Indian answered this bold defiance by a ghastly smile, that showed an unaltered purpose, while he motioned her away, as if to close the conference forever. If then the Count meant to scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London, these places were chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he might distribute more fully. The spectral figures in the Dance of Death, the most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly. Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me. I would rather face whole Hyde Parks of artillery than the ghastly forms of death which he has faced among the peaks and precipices of the mountains. In its cerebration, could Egypt construct a Pharhaonic memorial to hallow the martyrs whomsoever they are, in whatever circumstances they fell in this ghastly Gahanna? To Tess's sense there was, just at first, a ghastly BIZARRERIE, a grim incongruity, in the march of these solemn words of Scripture out of such a mouth. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity. These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the cemetery and seemed to set them dancing. Show More Sentences To this it clung in a seeming frenzy, grimacing ghastly, surging and plunging from side to side in its efforts to disengage its property from the beam, but uttering no sound. Find more words! 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