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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Maia’s horrified to realize that the bag was stolen; Tallulah’s mostly just annoyed she got caught.
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Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
The people who owned the land were horrified to think of our sleeping outside in the cold.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Bell then takes his own clear straw and puts it in Peck’s mouth, syphoning off coffee as Peck looks horrified.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
With much of the world horrified by the USSR’s brutality, Eisenhower was furious that the British-French-Israeli offensive was both diverting international attention and handing Moscow a PR victory by enabling it to speak about Western aggression in the Middle East.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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Caroline Framke, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
The people who owned the land were horrified to think of our sleeping outside in the cold.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Bell then takes his own clear straw and puts it in Peck’s mouth, syphoning off coffee as Peck looks horrified.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
With much of the world horrified by the USSR’s brutality, Eisenhower was furious that the British-French-Israeli offensive was both diverting international attention and handing Moscow a PR victory by enabling it to speak about Western aggression in the Middle East.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Horrify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horrify. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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