How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective
  • The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
  • The team had a horrible season last year.
  • He suffered a horrible death.
  • He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
  • The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The bad news is despite the win, the Crimson Tide looked horrible in many facets of the game.
    Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Want is deep and big and horrible and it cannot be chased down.
    Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • On her way up, Sara was met with a horrible smell and stopped.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 10 May 2023
  • No one can any longer doubt the horrible intentions of the Nazi beasts.
    Gordon F. Sander, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
  • That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 May 2023
  • Both sides have done horrible things in the name of self-defense and revenge.
    Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • That should have been the end of a horrible, widespread illness.
    Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Kennedy seemed more in it for the LOLs of the two being horrible for each other and at each other.
    Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There will be people who say that was great or that was horrible.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • People are much more likely to be horrible than nice a lot of the time, sadly.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Hartnett: The sins that lead to their horrible outcome.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And Jamal Murray came back from a horrible Game 2 to score 32 points.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • In the lyrics, Larsson sings to a friend who refuses to let go of their horrible partner.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Cunningham plays the captain of the ship, on which strange and horrible events occur.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
  • As the year went along, Anthony had horrible gut pains each night.
    Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • There’s something healing about watching the good guy swim through this horrible darkness and emerge in the light.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Jayson Tatum was nearing the end of a horrible offensive game.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • My mother thought this was his moment to say: 'Son, this was horrible.
    Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
  • No one should ever have to go through something as horrible as this.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Ted and Corey would have less than a year to enjoy their empty nest before that horrible night in March.
    Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Throughout the game, the Lakers’ body language reflected a team in the middle of a horrible slump.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, this is horrible for Ohtani, the baseball player and the human being.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There are people who do horrible things and people who do great things.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • His team had done some stories, uh, about a month ago about a horrible, horrible case in which a boyfriend just.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023

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