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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The deal horrified the motion picture establishment, which had been trying to keep talent away from the small screen.
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Roland Betancourt, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
Its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, was a physician horrified by the harm the conventional medicine of his time was causing.
—Phil Starks, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her.
—Nathan Rott, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
And Back both and Nakamoto were horrified by the shutdown of Napster, a peer-to-peer software used for sharing music.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
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Roland Betancourt, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
Its founder, Samuel Hahnemann, was a physician horrified by the harm the conventional medicine of his time was causing.
—Phil Starks, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her.
—Nathan Rott, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026
And Back both and Nakamoto were horrified by the shutdown of Napster, a peer-to-peer software used for sharing music.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Horrify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horrify. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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