How to Use ghoulish in a Sentence

ghoulish

adjective

• Use it to line the inside of the carving to create a ghoulish glow emanating from your pumpkin.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024