Lower, slower, it dissolved into a ghastly choking sound, as if someone was trying to breathe through a broken throat.

You know what kind of ghastly sounds they make.

She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box.

The three in front pawed at Walter's jeans, making a low and ghastly scratching sound.

He reached down to himself, putting his hands under the water, and he made a ghastly sound, like someone trying to yell in a whisper.

Paradine made a rather ghastly little sound, deep in his throat.

In that place, beneath the black clouds rolling in, it was a ghastly sound.

"Loons," Louis said and barely recognized the cracked, somehow ghastly sound of his own voice.

By the time the ghastly sound was over, Erin was dressed again.

It was a ghastly sound, like cloth ripping and I wondered if it hurt.