Sentence examples for particularly ghastly from inspiring English sources

One particularly ghastly highlight involves a man carrying around his severed head.

It wore a beautiful woven shawl but had a particularly ghastly expression because of a decomposed face, an unhinged jaw and a dusty black mat of hair.

REPORTS that "Jihadi John", a particularly ghastly member of the Islamic State who has been identified as the beheader of at least five Western hostages in Syria, is a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi embarrassed several outfits.

Quoting Thomas Carlyle's "The French Revolution," he said, "O shrieking beloved brother blockheads of Mankind!," and went on, "It may be necessary for us to grieve and shriek and sit shivah over this particularly ghastly moment in our collective life".

The main strip of Passaic is particularly ghastly with two-story walk-ups and storefronts, a faded Dairy Queen, an abandoned drive-in dry cleaners and not a tree nor shrub anywhere.

Philip was fully aware of the high camp nature of the whole enterprise and said of one particularly ghastly bathroom panelled in brown and black zigzags of marble, "It takes you by the throat and shakes you".

But there is something particularly gruesome and ghastly about the use of chemical weapons.

As vigils for the condemned were held around Australia, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, said she was "deeply disturbed" by the day's events, particularly "the ghastly process that the families have been put through".

It would be appalling enough if this were the work of someone destroyed by mental illness of a particularly rare, ghastly sort.

Yes, I know, it could be ghastly, particularly if films of other Eighties TV shows are anything to go by.

He's received news coverage for various angles on his venture, particularly on the claim that "Ghastly Love" could be the last movie to use Kodak Plus-X 5231.