Examples of ghastly

• In (37b) the well-known sound of a dentist's drill characterizes the (ghastly) sound of a person's voice.

• Throughout our hearings we kept hearing the word "product" — a ghastly word—in relation to tourism.

• However, it should prove a ghastly warning for us.

• I have vivid memories of men gasping for breath, suffering from emphysema and ghastly diseases of that kind.

• Possibly, we did more than we should have done; but we did it because we knew that, once a conflict starts, those ghastly things happen.

• All morning, we have been told about individuals who have committed the most ghastly and heinous acts and are a threat to society.

• In these circumstances, a ghastly tragedy could occur at any time for want of on-site surgery, anaesthetists and inter-hospital transport.

• Big towns have been ghastly models of slums, industrial de- velopment, housing, roads and railways—all thrown together in an unplanned tangle.