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Recent Examples of ghoulish
The video, then, served as a continuation of this idea—with Gaga facing off against various ghoulish versions of herself, a battle of the evil-versus-the eviler.
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
Before long, June sees a ghoulish, oozing specter of her mother, who threatens to make June kill her sons.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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
Meanwhile, fresh faces like Jenna Ortega and Justin Theroux made their debut in Burton’s ghoulish world.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
Before long, June sees a ghoulish, oozing specter of her mother, who threatens to make June kill her sons.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
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
Meanwhile, fresh faces like Jenna Ortega and Justin Theroux made their debut in Burton’s ghoulish world.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for ghoulish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Many of the ghostly tales stem from claims of tragic deaths like drownings, hangings, murders and freak accidents.Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 27 Oct. 2024
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This unsettling encounter has since become one of the many ghostly tales that add to the hotel’s haunting legacy.Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
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The Mexican researchers knew from research in other countries that successful detection with these techniques depends, in part, on being able to recognize how carcasses (and their spectral images) change in different soils and climates.Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
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But Shakespeare’s witches redefined— The word grew eerie, strange, and dark, A haunting chill, a spectral mark.Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Daryl tracked them to a quaint farmhouse with a ghastly walkway lined with guard walkers.Charlie Mason, TVLine, 20 Oct. 2024
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Ken Page, the Broadway veteran who provided the voice of the ghastly villain Oogie Boogie in the Tim Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, died Monday at his home in St. Louis, his reps said.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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Although the weather remained eerie, Ingham County voters found a way to the polls to clost out the 2024 election year.Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Next month, her upcoming film The Man in the White Van transitions her into the darker horror genre and out of the spooky childhood stardom.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Related Articles How to transfer data from an old console to the Playstation 5 Pro Missing spooky season?Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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That film won best film while Laura Carreira’s haunting debut feature On Falling won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the song’s piano version, recorded earlier in 2018, is sparser and even more haunting.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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But the youngsters' older siblings took costume ideas into their own hands, with Luna rocking a creepy black-and-red clown look while Miles dressed up and dabbed as DJ Marshmello.Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the opening minutes, Ani gamely deflects creepy customer questions.Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Physicists debated for decades (opens a new tab) whether this bizarre superfluid-solid hybrid could exist.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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These may seem like last-ditch efforts in the final runup to Tuesday, or like counter-programming to the increasingly vocal (and bizarre) antics of Elon Musk.WIRED, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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