On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Ghastly. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as grim or grisly and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Ghastly meaning
- Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.
- Horrifyingly shocking.
- Extremely bad.
Using Ghastly
- The main meaning on this page is: Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. | Horrifyingly shocking. | Extremely bad.
- Useful related words include: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre.
- In the example corpus, ghastly often appears in combinations such as: the ghastly, in ghastly, was ghastly.
Context around Ghastly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ghastly
- In this selection, "ghastly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pretty, motor, death and mistakes stand out and add context to how "ghastly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against the ghastly tragedy and are pretty ghastly soft waterlogged. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ghastly" sits close to words such as accumulates, admiralty and adventurers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ghastly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What she said happened next was ghastly. (7 words)
And it has ghastly consequences," said Stewart. (7 words)
It was such a ghastly time and we didn't go to the theatre. (14 words)
Amid a chaotic stretch that saw him traded from the White Sox to the Angels and then picked up off waivers by the Guardians as part of a last minute Los Angeles salary dump, Giolito fell into a bad funk and posted a ghastly 7.13 second half ERA. (49 words)
Direct reports that Wigwe, the Co-founder of Access Bank and the founder, Wigwe University, alongside his wife, Chizoba, son and lawyer, Abimbola Ogunbanjo died in a ghastly helicopter crash on Friday. (32 words)
I expect that sprouts, as with many other brassicas (cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower), have a bad rep because when overcooked, particularly by boiling, they are pretty ghastly – soft, waterlogged and a little sulphurous. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cleveland only mustered 45 points in the first half, and their offensive rating was a ghastly 90.0 through 24 minutes.
He is pulling all sorts of things into the Bidenomics category, including the ghastly bi-partisan infrastructure bill passed in 2021.
I suppose had she used one of those ghastly death-trap scooters, everyone would have been praising her for her initiative.
Kaplan himself allows that Prince Mohammed is prone to “ghastly mistakes,” such as the murder and bone-saw dismemberment of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
No fewer than five persons have died in a ghastly car accident that occured at Abatete, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was involved in a ghastly motor accident on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
The 1947 partition of India and Pakistan turned 14 million Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims into refugees, unleashing a wave of ghastly violence that left as many as 2 million dead.
The report of Onistrat's death prompted hundreds of responses expressing condolences to his family and calling for an immediate end to the ghastly conflict.
We started primary school together, passed our 11-plus, went to grammar school where we wore our (still kept) berets and learned to knit our ghastly scarves.
What she said happened next was ghastly.
Amid a chaotic stretch that saw him traded from the White Sox to the Angels and then picked up off waivers by the Guardians as part of a last minute Los Angeles salary dump, Giolito fell into a bad funk and posted a ghastly 7.13 second half ERA.
And it has ghastly consequences," said Stewart.
Certainly, the traumas that haunt Kenneth turn out to have been ghastly and horrible, and though the hurt is past, he suffers still.
Direct reports that Wigwe, the Co-founder of Access Bank and the founder, Wigwe University, alongside his wife, Chizoba, son and lawyer, Abimbola Ogunbanjo died in a ghastly helicopter crash on Friday.
Dress codes are ghastly - why make people wear something they don’t necessarily look good in and will probably never wear again.
He was humiliated, suffered setbacks, survived a ghastly motor accident, was incarcerated, and even mocked by his peers in his younger days at Ayedun Ekiti.
I expect that sprouts, as with many other brassicas (cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower), have a bad rep because when overcooked, particularly by boiling, they are pretty ghastly – soft, waterlogged and a little sulphurous.
In his resignation letter, Paul said that like thousands of people, he is deeply saddened by the ghastly crime.
It was such a ghastly time and we didn't go to the theatre.
Junior doctors in different state-run hospitals in the state have continued with their protests and cease-work against the ghastly tragedy.
Common combinations with ghastly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ghastly 20×
- in ghastly 6×
- was ghastly 5×
- ghastly and 5×
- ghastly motor 4×
- of ghastly 4×
- ghastly accident 4×
- are ghastly 3×
- and ghastly 3×
- that ghastly 3×