How to Use ghoulish in a Sentence

ghoulish

adjective
  • Try lime for a ghoulish green cocktail.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Or who tasted ghoulish true crime.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Many dressed as ghoulish priests and nuns, their faces painted white and black.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a chill in the air (maybe) and the ghoulish sights of Halloween are all around us.
    — Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The jack-o'-lantern, which sits atop a ghoulish body draped in tattered black robes, also speaks.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Raúl and the men dressed in ghoulish black tempted him with alcohol.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What starts off as a touching process of prolonged grieving soon turns ghoulish.
    — WIRED, 21 June 2023
  • Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Get a ghoulish gaze by outlining the iris with black and filling in with strokes of both blue and green.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
    — JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Jonathan Majors is set to make an appearance at a ghoulish event.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This can include anything from life-sized skeletons to ghoulish ghosts or evil witches.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Nadler’s isn’t the only bakery getting into the ghoulish fun this year.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Aquarius Looking for a ghoulish time?
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And because the show delights in gore, the king’s decay is a ghoulish and graphic affair.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The glow in the dark polish will look purposeful at your ghoulish gathering.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The ghoulish aim was to document what would happen as the disease progressed.
    — Time, 5 July 2023
  • Whether the ghoulish gambit of the movie’s Christmas release pays off remains to be seen.
    — Mike Calia, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Enter its doors, and ghoulish masks of past presidents stare down at you from above a wall of wacky, colorful wigs.
    — Christopher Intagliata, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Halloween has come and gone, though some ghoulish favorites are making their presence felt on the top 40.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Lilia follows a creepy girl in a dress through the house, only to find ghoulish undead witches leering at her.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Why not start driving around the neighborhoods to see the ghoulish fun slowly begin to appear.
    — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The coffee shop features ghoulish coffees and Horror night vibes.
    — Richard Guzman, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Use it to line the inside of the carving to create a ghoulish glow emanating from your pumpkin.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The ghoulish figure continues to be one of the franchise’s most iconic aspects.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The Klan and its ghoulish doings were greatly diminished, but the hate endured.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Before long, June sees a ghoulish, oozing specter of her mother, who threatens to make June kill her sons.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The gigs have a ghoulish tint, since the basic idea is for former employees to teach AI how to do their old jobs.
    — Krystle Vermes, Futurism, 13 May 2026
  • Banning access to the ghoulish inner guts of the wreck, as well as recovering objects to study, to many, is bizarre.
    — Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Amid the rows of pumpkins and candy are often ghoulish masks or scary statement pieces that, in this case, caused a rush of fear within the passing dog.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

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