How to Use ghoulish in a Sentence

ghoulish

adjective
  • The tone can run from the ghoulish glee of Wednesday to the brooding soap opera of The Vampire Diaries.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The jack-o'-lantern, which sits atop a ghoulish body draped in tattered black robes, also speaks.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Get a ghoulish gaze by outlining the iris with black and filling in with strokes of both blue and green.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And then there’s the movie premiere itself, where ghoulish fans, straight out of The Day of the Locust, threaten to devour her.
    Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Set in the present day, the story plays out on the former site of the Cabrini-Green housing projects that served as the ghoulish setting for Rose’s film.
    Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Some say our part of this now familiar dance is ghoulish.
    Jenny Deam, ProPublica, 31 May 2022
  • And because the show delights in gore, the king’s decay is a ghoulish and graphic affair.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The Crypt Keeper, brought back from the dead to haunt 90s audiences with ghoulish tales, is missing.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • Nadler’s isn’t the only bakery getting into the ghoulish fun this year.
    Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Jonathan Majors is set to make an appearance at a ghoulish event.
    Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • What starts off as a touching process of prolonged grieving soon turns ghoulish.
    WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Halloween has come and gone, though some ghoulish favorites are making their presence felt on the top 40.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2022
  • And Streep was a lot of fun as the ghoulish mother-in-law who tries to seize custody of abuse survivor Celeste’s (Kidman) twin sons.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Pumpkins are known for a ghoulish grin and delicious taste.
    Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The ghoulish aim was to document what would happen as the disease progressed.
    Time, 5 July 2023
  • The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And the Halloween-eve hair-raiser adds a cackling skeleton to a horror arcade of ghoulish news for EVs.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The glow in the dark polish will look purposeful at your ghoulish gathering.
    Ariana Yaptangco, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Why not start driving around the neighborhoods to see the ghoulish fun slowly begin to appear.
    cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But Freddy’s is invested in making people, not its ghoulish machines, the stars of the show, and suffers for it.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Lilia follows a creepy girl in a dress through the house, only to find ghoulish undead witches leering at her.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Perhaps the most ghoulish basement was in a police station in Kherson City.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • David Cameron—former British prime minister and ghoulish specter of Brexit past—is back.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe if, say, a celebrity the naysayer loves and adores shared her encounter with the supernatural, the spook doubter might become more open to the idea of ghoulish friends.
    refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The ghoulish figure continues to be one of the franchise’s most iconic aspects.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Dressed in ghoulish zombie makeup, the 21-year-old began by popping up in front of the judges’ table, scaring Klum and Mandel out of their seats.
    USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • This can include anything from life-sized skeletons to ghoulish ghosts or evil witches.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The coffee shop features ghoulish coffees and Horror night vibes.
    Richard Guzman, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Due to her beloved performance as the ghoulish girl, fans launched a petition calling for her to be cast in the show when the Netflix series was first announced.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the ghoulish decor and goth sweets, Spooky's Swirls bakery is not Halloween exclusive.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2022

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