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Meanings of ghastly in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sepulchral"
Examples for "sepulchral"
1
At length in a low sepulchral voice She pronounced the following words:
2
And she made the remark in an almost sepulchral tone of warning.
3
When I did I found the house dark and the silence sepulchral.
4
The rest of his sepulchral performances hardly deserve the notice of criticism.
5
Such was the fate of the seven occupants of this sepulchral chamber.
1
Caverns used by the natives as charnel-houses in the Isle of Pines.
2
Meridor was a part of the system that ran that charnel house.
3
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
4
What they watch is a farce played out in a charnel house.
5
Yet that fragrant balm cannot stifle the smell of the charnel house.
Usage of ghastly in English
1
Of all the units operating in that ghastly Sector, the 17th H.L.I.
2
IRAQ: Somewhere in Iraq a grim and ghastly auction is taking place.
3
The ferocious purpose in the black eyes faded to a ghastly terror.
4
The Sermon on the Mount makes the morality of the nations ghastly.
5
The sand was stained with brownish blood patches; the wounds were ghastly.
6
She looked up in his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.
7
Lost in the ghastly realms of native ghostlore, he ignored the American.
8
Writer compares the present to the ghastly miscalculations of World War I.
9
The lips were drawn back, displaying the teeth in a ghastly smile.
10
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
11
He was ghastly white; his head had fallen back against the bed.
12
Did we really want to uncover the reason for this ghastly quilt?
13
All this has members of his own party calling him ghastly names.
14
The face, lying full in the moonlight, was of a ghastly pallor.
15
It was ghastly down here; for everywhere they came across dead sheep.
16
It was a grim humor and sometimes ghastly; but it satisfied Tarzan.
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Ghastly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common