Sentence examples for ghastly amount from inspiring English sources
But it seems a ghastly amount to pay for something where your true interest lies in only 50 precious words written by your child - the rest won't hold quite the same fascination, let's face it.
"It was hard for me at first, because it seems like a ghastly amount of money, but it's going for a worthy cause," said Ms. Anderson, who lives in Fresno, Calif., where she was once a kindergarten teacher.
My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
Though any amount of chemical agent might seem ghastly, in actual use chemicals have proved no more deadly, pound for pound, than conventional bombs.
This thinking has also given rise to the ghastly practice of describing funding in such terms as a "six-figure investment", to imply an amount just shy of a million.
Kershaw succeeds in clearing away a great many misconceptions, he deploys an impressive amount of evidence about the variety and complexity of public opinion and he brilliantly describes the ghastly fate of many ordinary Germans.
Ghastly values, ghastly people.
Ghastly political failure?
