How to Use ghastly in a Sentence

ghastly

adjective

• His room was a ghastly mess.
• You're making a ghastly mistake.
• 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
• Whether this is in fact the real world, or just some ghastly illusion, also remains to be seen.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Was this ghastly outcome for the Palestinians and Israel worth corrupting the rule of law in our own society?
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024