GHASTLY in a Sentence
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75 example sentences for GHASTLY, such as:
1. She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
2. Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
3. But for me it seems a ghastly treachery to the unborn creature.
4. He gave Mrs Bolton a terrible shock, sitting up in bed ghastly and blank.
5. The wretched whelp plucked up a ghastly courage, and began to grow defiant.
2. Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
3. But for me it seems a ghastly treachery to the unborn creature.
4. He gave Mrs Bolton a terrible shock, sitting up in bed ghastly and blank.
5. The wretched whelp plucked up a ghastly courage, and began to grow defiant.
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Meanings and Examples of GHASTLY
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ghastly
a. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
a. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1 "Come here," he said, bustling back into the room, the atmosphere of which felt clearer since the removal of its ghastly inmate.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2 For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3 The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
4 The wretched whelp plucked up a ghastly courage, and began to grow defiant.
5 At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.
6 "Thou canst not shake me by thy petty malice," answered Front-de-Boeuf, with a ghastly and constrained laugh.
7 He looked ghastly pale, as if he had not slept for several nights, yet reined his pawing war-horse with the habitual ease and grace proper to the best lance of the Order of the Temple.
8 She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands.
9 It was one of the ghastly half-truths that poison human existence.
10 Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.
11 But for me it seems a ghastly treachery to the unborn creature.
12 It is our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind.
13 He gave Mrs Bolton a terrible shock, sitting up in bed ghastly and blank.
14 'She was my daughter,' said the old woman, nodding her head in the direction of the corpse; and speaking with an idiotic leer, more ghastly than even the presence of death in such a place.
15 The flame threw a ghastly light on their shrivelled faces, and made their ugliness appear terrible, as, in this position, they began to converse in a low voice.
Example Sentence:
1 It was a kind of ghastly waiting for the jurymen to return; it is so hard to spend.
2 His black eyes were restless, sly, and cunning; his mouth and chin bristly with a coarse, hard beard; his face never clean, but always distorted with a ghastly grin.
3 She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
4 Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.