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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • She’s living in this place of self-loathing and shame and all these horrible things.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 3 Jan. 2022
  • That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 May 2023
  • Both sides have done horrible things in the name of self-defense and revenge.
    — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • None of them were horrible looks, but there wasn’t a lot of paint touches.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a long time, but in July and August, the rain is horrible.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The fact that the Browns are amazing in the end zone matches up well with the fact that the Chiefs’ defense is horrible inside the 20.
    — cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The dessert was a prune meringue, and the boss suffered a horrible accident on the commuter train the next day.
    — Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • That should have been the end of a horrible, widespread illness.
    — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • That being said, the rest of the game went horrible for the Lions, who might have given up 70 points had the Bucs kept Brady in the game.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Kennedy seemed more in it for the LOLs of the two being horrible for each other and at each other.
    — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
  • That must have been the most horrible second half of a senior year.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
  • This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Those plans are HMOs and many of us remember how horrible those were, denying service, or stalling approval.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025

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