Sentence examples for ghastly aftermath from inspiring English sources
"ghastly aftermath" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to the horrible consequences or results of an event, especially a tragic or violent one. For example, you could say: The terrorist attack left a ghastly aftermath of death and destruction.
And in between we see the steady progress of the buildup to war, the military conflict itself and the ghastly aftermath.
The causes of war, the collateral damage of war, the ghastly aftermath of war, the devastating impact of war on the self: this is Greek tragedy's stock in trade.
My photographer friend Steve Connors and I drove for weeks, in spring 2003, in Fallujah, Najaf and Nasiriyah with only one CD in our old GMC wagon: No Quarter by Plant and Page, to which we must have listened a hundred times in war's ghastly aftermath.
A frightened public demanding results in the aftermath of a ghastly crime also places predictable pressures on prosecutors and police, which can sometimes lead to questionable conduct.
Quite possibly, in the aftermath of the ghastly attack, Valentine had much less stomach for monitoring the psyches in the clubhouse.
As a young kid (as distinct from all those old and decrepit kids, I guess that phrase means), I'd encountered more than my share of ghastly blood and brains all over the highway, traffic accident aftermaths (for reasons to be dealt with in a future column).
Pace and plot, for instance: she draws us, unsuspecting, into the shock of Pandora's meeting with Edison after a break of four years, during which he has ballooned from the hip idol of her youth to a "fairground float" of 386 pounds; and thus she charts the ghastly, comic ups-and-downs of his year-long diet, masterminded by her, and its ghastly, comic aftermath.
When FOX News fires up the war hawk, fear-mongering partisan propaganda machine and men vying to lead our nation attempt to stir xenophobia in the aftermath of global carnage, we should be disgusted at their knee-jerk reaction to use such a ghastly event to push an agenda on us at a time when we're emotionally fragile.
Ghastly values, ghastly people.
