ghastly

Example Sentences

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What do you get the woman who has everything — if “everything” constitutes a collection of ghastly hats, a Grinchian disdain for Christmas and a giant golden cage from which she manages the occasional stiff smile?

From Salon

Next to the article is an advertisement for Liver Salt, some sort of ghastly drink promising “inner cleanliness.”

From Literature

His penance is to “pass, like night, from land to land,” repeating his story: “And till my ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The ghostly, ghastly Mr. Green nodded politely at Mr. Pinkerton but reminded him that he would be on tomorrow’s eight-o’clock train bound for New Orleans.

From Literature

Molly forced the window open wider, her hands not yet claws, but still a ghastly gray that she associated with her monstrous form.

From Literature