Sentence examples for ghastly combination from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cohen ordered a root beer float with chocolate ice cream, which struck me as a ghastly combination.

The picture comes bathed in golden hues, as though it has been sitting for too long under the sun-lamp, and its subject is padding around his mansion like some ghastly combination of Baby Jane, Michael Jackson and the emperor Nero.

Combining a video montage of supper-table scenes from various movies, religious objects and a large color photograph of a family gathered around a kitchen table laden with a ghastly combination of foodstuffs, "Rituals: The Last Supper" takes shots at both Catholicism and the ritual of meal time.

The square is mind-bogglingly ghastly, a combination of the garish and the banal that would drive away any but the starving.

Sometimes the combinations go ghastly, but that's life.

Sometimes I wake up the next day and the sunlight's hitting it and I say, "Whoa, that's ghastly!" When I find a combination that works, I keep it all hung up together; it saves time.

None of her Scandinavian friends had heard of mumma, and the drink – a combination of lager, stout, madeira and gin – sounds ghastly.

The combination of BP and the Lockerbie case is a potentially ghastly one.

They sail over the stage aboard a timber-shiveringly ghastly galleon – just one of many effects spectacularly realised through an imposing combination of stage design (Colin Richmond), video (Ian William Galloway) and lighting (Oliver Fenwick).

Grangé's solution is a combination of driven narrative, colour, breathlessness, quick character sketches, a lot of physical prose ("the ghastly dampness of her open, slack entrails"), a fondness for underground locations and art galleries, and moments of puzzlement.

Ghastly values, ghastly people.