Sentence examples for ghastly sight from inspiring English sources
One New York Times reporter described the incident in detail, noting that it was "awful" and "the witnesses were so horrified by the ghastly sight that they could not take their eyes off it".
What disturbing realities might we soon learn from children's reactions to the overwhelming images from New York, be they the ghastly sight of the planes flying into the towers, or their collapse, or the abiding images of recovery folded into the language of warfare and the reality of biological terrorism?
It is a ghastly sight, an anatomical impossibility (if you are rowing properly, that is) and physiologically dangerous... Wouldn't you rather be playing tennis or something like that?!" While parity with the men's race is a big step in the right direction, some still believe that total equality in rowing is a way off.
Indeed, as late as 1962, the captain of Selwyn College at Cambridge was moved to write to the university's women's boat club to chastise them for perpetrating something that was "a ghastly sight, an anatomical impossibility and physiologically dangerous".
Each day this city presents its residents with ghastly sights and reminders that there has been no shortage of ill fortune here.
After the Battle of Savage's Station on June 29, for example, Sneden recorded the overwhelming carnage, where even "the most humane man, with the strongest nerves, breathing for days the poisoned atmosphere of festering wounds, gazing on the most ghastly sights, and hearing the piercing shrieks of the patients while undergoing the operations, is absolutely compelled to shut his eyes".
Our details were busily engaged in collecting and burying the dead, and the ghastly, terrible sights were enough to shock a heart of adamant.
There's that ghastly moment when you catch sight of yourself in the mirror and think, 'Who is that old lady?'" What, if anything, is forbidden, I ask her?
Lance and Teddy describe precisely the same horrific vista: the monstrous autophagia of our domestic politic, our national spirit, a sight abhorrent and ghastly to behold, as we tear ourselves apart.
The sight before her was ghastly: the roof of the train had been blown off and bodies lay strewn on the railroad tracks.
