Examples of horrify in a Sentence
The details of the crime horrified the nation.
They were horrified by the movie's violence.
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Reading the flood of comments that piled up underneath the posts, I was horrified to see how many expressed solidarity with the chef rather than with his victims.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
In the years since Boogie Nights, Leo has made an unlikely hit out of The Man in the Iron Mask, then took the role of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, showing off his range and turning that surreal and often horrifying movie into another $100 million feather in his cap.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
Young people see horrifying images on their phones and are duly horrified.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Girls and women are increasingly playing football alongside boys and men, an idea that would horrify at least one of the NWFL players quoted in Hail Mary.
—Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
In the years since Boogie Nights, Leo has made an unlikely hit out of The Man in the Iron Mask, then took the role of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, showing off his range and turning that surreal and often horrifying movie into another $100 million feather in his cap.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
Young people see horrifying images on their phones and are duly horrified.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Girls and women are increasingly playing football alongside boys and men, an idea that would horrify at least one of the NWFL players quoted in Hail Mary.
—Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Horrify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horrify. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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