Sentence examples for ghastly scale from inspiring English sources
The ghastly scale of bloodletting has to be explained.
Such suffering, he said, "made for tragedy on a scale so ghastly that it cannot be dismissed as merely the inevitable consequence of the clash of competing ways of life".
All across the trashy/classy scale, from the ghastly Osbournes to the vile Redgraves, this rule holds – no wonder popular culture often seems so exhausted and uninspired, weighed down as it is by so much lucky sperm and afterbirth washing around.
Ultimately the only way to defeat the Nazis was to match them for scale and power: a massive and ghastly war of attrition.
The dozen battles fought in the Isonzo valley stand out for the scale of their slaughter, cruelty, courage and ghastly military-command pigheadedness in the face of failure.
The recent reported use of sarin, a ghastly nerve agent, is shrouded in mystery, and is too small-scale and murky to trigger an American response now.
Sri Lanka may have endured a ghastly civil war and suicide bombings in the past but nothing of this scale.
Although the depredations of Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders have been ghastly all over the north of England, there is nothing to rival Liverpool for the sheer scale of destruction, dereliction and waste.
Ghastly values, ghastly people.
