How to use "ghastly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ghastly" in popular movie and book plots

  • The ghastly faceless corpse reverts into the child she once was.  - Cinderella (2006 film)
  • They are cared for by Aunt Fanny's temporary cook, Mrs Stick, who is accompanied by her husband and their ghastly son Edgar.  - Five Run Away Together
  • The children live in the Bleak Hill boarding school, whose ghastly old headmistress constantly punishes and berates them.  - Mush and Milk
  • While, like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door, a hideous throng rush out forever and laugh - But smile no more".  - The Haunted Palace
  • her eyes a ghastly white and red.  - Stranger in Our House
  • Now it is up to Casper and his new friends to stop their ghastly games and save Halloween before it is too late.  - Casper's Halloween Special
  • Then Carol begins to have nighmares about ghastly noises in the dead of night, a bloody face in a mirror, and a razor-sharp ax.  - The Mask (novel)
  • Smiling towards Samantha, she kisses him, then reverts to her ghastly form and drags him with her into the grave.  - Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
  • When he wakes up, he notices a ghastly thing: he has six arms.  - The Six Arms Saga
  • In others, victims revived and were able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their ghastly prisons.  - The Premature Burial
  • The formerly excited townspeople slowly become disgusted and Martha faints at the ghastly display.  - The Proposition (2005 film)
  • Mark continues on his hunting spree as his appearance slowly becomes more ghastly and his behavior more erratic.  - I, Zombie
  • There he was, with his nose pressed against the glass, but looking ghastly pale.  - The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
  • Buquet describes a ghastly sight of a living skeleton to the girls, who are then startled by a shadow cast on the wall.  - The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)
  • Betelgeuse saves the Maitlands and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then prepares a wedding before a ghastly minister.  - Beetlejuice
  • He tells them his own ghastly story.  - Carmilla

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