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Example sentences for: ghastly

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Another collector of shrunken heads, who requested anonymity, has a Vietnam War photograph of a group of American soldiers posing by a crude altar fashioned from skulls and bones, reminiscent of the ghastly constructions of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.
From them they learned to make swift, light birchbark canoes, snowshoes, and pemmican — a ghastly but nourishing mixture of buffalo fat with bits of dried meat and berries.
I do not think we can do anything in Chechnya, ghastly as is the Russian behavior.
Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.
Not one employed journalist in 100 has even heard of this ghastly double dip or experienced the surge of fury I felt when I called up the Authors' League in 1987 to ask why they weren't screaming about it.