Sentence examples for ghastly of from inspiring English sources

They – the ghastly toffs – are still ghastly, of course.

On Freud's list of suggested translations, Kotsko also finds "uncomfortable, uneasy, gloomy, dismal, uncanny, ghastly; (of a house) haunted; (of a man) a repulsive fellow".

We convinced 10 of the capital's finest sites to do that most ghastly of things... give away one of their best secrets.

If three mega-events were held in the country every four years under the aegis of two of Switzerland's least appealing domiciles– and that really is saying something – then I can't help thinking the experience would soon crystallise the country's thinking on the succour it affords these two most ghastly of governing bodies.

Ben from Before and After by Rosellen Brown: Not all would admire Ben's decisions when faced with the most ghastly of family problems, (his teenage son is accused of murder) but this complicated character manages to love and stay with his wife and children, even as their individual choices strain the family beyond reason.

But, in one of those ghastly reversals of fate that only Kafka could have written of, the cure was cut short.

London was again whipped into panic by reports of the ghastly details of the Whitechapel – or "Jack the Ripper" – murders.

For Christians, torture is not a joke or a political punchline, but a ghastly reminder of the suffering of Jesus upon the cross.

Pei Ming returns later with his own take on one of the most ghastly images of the Vietnam War.

He added: "I am getting fed up with this carping about the manager and this ghastly sort of merry-go-round of managers leaving.

Gordon observed, "In the woods into which our regiments charged and by the fence where my Brigade fought in line of battle, there were ghastly piles of dead".