Sentence examples for ghastly encounter from inspiring English sources

The nadir came in the ghastly encounter between Gordon Brown and Labour supporter Gillian Duffy on the campaign trail in Rochdale last May, when the prime minister angrily dismissed Duffy's views on immigration as "bigoted".

She began to remember her child's life as a whole, defined not just by one ghastly encounter, one horrific moment, but also by years of joy and struggle and all the other elements that add up to a whole person, an existence however abbreviated.

Last week the forthcoming big-budget Tomb Raider reboot made headlines after its executive producer apparently told the gaming site Kotaku that players would feel an urge to "protect" Lara after she faces a series of ghastly trials including an encounter in which she kills a would-be rapist.

A celebrated Australian scientist recounts his many long research excursions into the wilds of New Guinea, harrowing journeys during which he encountered cannibals, ghastly diseases, a giant gold mine, shrieking frogs and a hungry 10-foot black python.

A 22-year-old Ghastly spoke on an awkward encounter with a ex-boo. .

"The lucky escapes and the cruel encounters and the ghastly injuries I've seen keep coming back to me unbidden, sharp and clear as a photograph," he writes.

On most mornings on the street adjoining the Westgate mall, the scene of the ghastly attack in Nairobi last week, one would encounter dozens of hawkers peddling wares to passing motorists.

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).

You can look at Carol's end in many ways: as an innocent's devastating encounter with terror-obsessed police, as a ghastly but haphazard event, as a death foretold.

He was encountering things he'd heard about as a child: "the ghastly smell of cabbage in doss-house corridors, and fag ash in the basin".

She acknowledged that the sequel to The Country Girls, Girl with Green Eyes, features an enjoyably ghastly young poet and literateur called Simon, who was "a bit of everyone" she encountered at such parties.