How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective

• The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
• The team had a horrible season last year.
• He suffered a horrible death.
• He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• And then with Delta, all the on-sales for the last month have been horrible.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• The toll of this war is horrible and there is no end in sight.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 17 Apr. 2021
• The premise of the question is horrible......that there has to be a trade-off.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2020
• That’s a horrible pace to keep for 15 straight minutes with one of the best in the world.
  — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 24 June 2019
• The throw wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t thrown well enough to avoid a turnover.
  — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2020
• And, yes, the 76ers have been horrible on the road this season.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• The bad news is despite the win, the Crimson Tide looked horrible in many facets of the game.
  — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• That day – in a horrible twist of fate – turned out to be Armistice Day.
  — J. Alexander Navarro, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• But then two horrible shifts by the Wild turned the game upside down in the blink of an eye.
  — Michael Russo, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
• Yes, a lot of great things have been done in the name of that flag, but so have a lot of horrible things.
  — Eric Dickerson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Want is deep and big and horrible and it cannot be chased down.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• On her way up, Sara was met with a horrible smell and stopped.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• This looked like a horrible matchup for the Spartans when the bowl matchups came out.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2021
• There’s no doubt that over the last week, the pitching has been horrible.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• For the rest of us every day has been a horrible slog thru the 9th Circle of Hell.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2020
• That felt too close to the actual, horrible things in the world.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
• No one can any longer doubt the horrible intentions of the Nazi beasts.
  — Gordon F. Sander, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• And then Princess Margaret’s horrible to you and all that.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• The Bears are horrible on offense and can’t keep pace with Aaron Rodgers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• And so, the fact that somebody in our community has been lost in such a tragic, horrible way.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 3 June 2026
• Things have been going horrible for me.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
• This, of course, was a horrible idea.
  — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• My mom and dad died — horrible — and my manager kept sending me stuff.
  — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026
• There was nothing more horrible than being an actor.
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Some of it had to do with horrible tragedy, some because hopefuls could not see the math working out for them.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026