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Definition of horror show
: something difficult to deal with or watch
the trial was a horror show
Examples of horror show in a Sentence
The trial has been a horror show.
Recent Examples on the Web Ortiz-Luis made her debut as Rachel Valdez, the precocious daughter of deceased Black Badge Division scientist Gloria Valdez, in the death-defying fantasy horror show's season 4 premiere.
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Chancellor Agard, EW.com, "Wynonna Earp star Melanie Scrofano previews 'sass rivalry' with Rachel Valdez," 31 July 2020 In a detailed account of the island’s environmental justice horror show, reporter Raven Rakia noted at Grist that, as temperatures rise, six of the island’s 10 facilities lack air conditioning.
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Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, "Turn Rikers Island Into a Solar Farm," 19 June 2020 The Fame to 2013’s Artpop, Gaga and her producers fused together an ever-shifting, hyper-modern rumble over which the singer performed a campy horror show.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Lady Gaga Is Back and Smaller Than Ever," 1 June 2020 For most of the world the Covid-19 crisis is a horror show.
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Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, "Will Canada Send Oil and Gas Packing?," 31 May 2020 But 60 million Americans over the age of 70 have seen this horror show before: the polio scourge that ravaged the world's young from roughly 1916 until Jonas Salk’s vaccination arrived in 1955.
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Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, "For those who survived polio, coronavirus is eerily familiar. But ultimately, 'science won'.," 21 Mar. 2020 Still, the balloon was burst with the horror show at the Theatre of Dreams on Sunday, whilst Liverpool have done the opposite and put a poor pre-season behind them to begin the 2019/20 campaign in fine fashion.
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SI.com, "Liverpool vs Chelsea Preview: Where to Watch, Live Stream, Kick Off Time & Team News," 12 Aug. 2019 Requiem for a Dream comes to mind, the day-glow horror show about drug addiction that pressed imagery of infected veins deeply, indelibly into our brains.
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Kaitlin Menza, Marie Claire, "The Excruciating Necessity of 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always'," 10 Apr. 2020 There were campers who came from the real life horror show that was the Willowbrook Institution.
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Maysoon Zayid, refinery29.com, "Netflix’s Crip Camp: The Summer Of Love That Led To A Revolution," 30 Mar. 2020
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The first known use of horror show was circa 1959
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