Words similar to ghastly

Example sentences for: ghastly

How can you use “ghastly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
When she successfully put land mines on the world's agenda, she didn't do it by going to the United Nations or 10 Downing St., but to the places where the mines had done their ghastly damage.
There were dramatic naval battles and a final ghastly defeat for the United States when the British burned down the city of Washington.
I once watched a friend get his nose broken in a (brief) fistfight and it remains one of the most ghastly things I've ever seen.