How to Use horrific in a Sentence

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• The brief, horrific scenes of the Harkonnen home planet of Giedi Prime are some of the best in the film.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Klimek: It’s been a record year for wildfires, with horrific blazes all over the globe.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• That’s a lot of money to spend on a horrific status quo.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• This horrific attack was one of the major events that helped to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 13 Jan. 2024
• In both Uvalde and Sandy Hook, horrific images of the carnage were not released to the public.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Its repeal has, of course, had a horrific impact on the lives of so many people.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• With runners on the corners and no outs in the sixth inning of a 3-3 tie, the Sox endured a horrific sequence.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• That’s a horrific way to die, decaying from the inside out for that long.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• Look no further than the horrific events of this weekend alone.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
• The most horrific part is that these jaw-dropping records are just the beginning.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
• The footage made clear that the deaths were horrific and the suffering unspeakable.
  — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• The shooting is a horrific tragedy – but hardly unique.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022 in a new memoir.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• And these souls who’ve met such horrific demises are lost.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• Those horrific conditions led to a cholera outbreak last year, the first such event in Haiti since 2019.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• The next morning, searchers came upon a horrific scene.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Mental illness is said to be the reason for the horrific actions.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Gantz is not this horrific person like Ben-Gvir or Smotrich.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• Six months on from Hamas’s horrific attack on the Israeli people, @David_Cameron renews our call to send all of the hostages home.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• He got hurt, and now to hear this information of what this man did is horrific.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 14 Sep. 2023
• Wolf Feeding Habits Through the human lens, a wolf’s style of eating might seem horrific.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 23 Aug. 2023
• This is our first chance to talk to you since the horrific attack by Hamas against Israel on October 7th.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Hawaii is reeling from a horrific wildfire that ripped through Maui and killed at least 100 people.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
• Vesek to listen to the outcome of this horrific incident. ...
  — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2023
• The horrific case sent shock waves through the public and led to a shakeup at the state Department of Children and Families.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Photos from the scene, shown at last year's trial, were horrific and heart-wrenching.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Kremlin’s brutal war in Ukraine, now in its third horrific year, has cost Russians dearly.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
• In this process of learning about the horrific Reign of Terror, remember that the Osage remain.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• All of the ship’s livestock is discovered slaughtered, their necks ripped open by horrific bites.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
• The ravages of toxic waste and the horrific aftermath of atomic war are never seen.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024