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Example sentences for: ghastly

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The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (a k a the Work Opportunity Tax Credit) has been a ghastly disappointment ever since it was enacted in 1978.
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 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.
There were dramatic naval battles and a final ghastly defeat for the United States when the British burned down the city of Washington.
Pro-life advocates offer a seductive argument: Whatever you think about abortion in general, partial-birth abortion is just too ghastly to permit.