Thus is the Green family's ghastly experience transformed into formulaic uplift.

You see, Anne, had a ghastly experience once.

We both sort of had the same ghastly experience so many years ago.

Her heart was racing like a captive bird's but she seemed otherwise not much the worse for what could only have been the most ghastly experience.

Today that incident looked amusing but at the time it was a ghastly experience.

His response, that it must have been "a ghastly experience," won her over.

How many readers can be expected to have had such ghastly experiences?

More than a century ago the nightwatchman at North Road Station had a ghastly experience.

The entire night last night was a ghastly experience.

It's the most ghastly experience I've ever lived through!