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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No special effects were required to trigger Curry's stark drift from amiability to horrifying emptiness.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
After his grisly crimes were uncovered, Gein spent his final years in psychiatric confinement far from the farmhouse that once horrified the nation.
—Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Pushed to extremes While footage and photographs of starving Palestinians in Gaza have horrified audiences abroad, inside Israel they have been dismissed by many as manipulated or untrue.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
They were horrified of debt, having lived through the Depression.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
After his grisly crimes were uncovered, Gein spent his final years in psychiatric confinement far from the farmhouse that once horrified the nation.
—Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Pushed to extremes While footage and photographs of starving Palestinians in Gaza have horrified audiences abroad, inside Israel they have been dismissed by many as manipulated or untrue.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
They were horrified of debt, having lived through the Depression.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Horrify.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horrify. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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