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Example sentences for: ghastly

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There was, for instance, the ghastly incident shortly after Drew was born, when he was lying in the arms of their mother, who was asleep, and red ants crawled in through the window and nearly ate him alive.
Now, five years after its author's demise, it has re-emerged as Kinski Uncut . Despite the unfortunate change of name, this ghastly and hypnotic memoir lives up to its long-festering legend.
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.
Besides Bening, the film's chief interest is the unmatched intensity that Jordan brings to her visions, which are both lyrical and ghastly, and so frightening that it's hard to imagine how the movie can deliver a demon worthy of them.
Less ghastly is the Jewish Cemetery, on the outskirts of town (off Rua Leão Penedo, near Praça dos Bomberos de Faro).