How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective
Definition of horriblenext
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That should have been the end of a horrible, widespread illness.
    — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Kennedy seemed more in it for the LOLs of the two being horrible for each other and at each other.
    — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And around this grotesque and horrible mask of death, the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed in a stream of gold.
    — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
  • She’s been jeered at and harassed and faced horrible things.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Mahomes was horrible for most of the half, and overtime.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There will be people who say that was great or that was horrible.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • Then, an hour and a half later, a horrible storm came through and tore out half of its branches.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • People are much more likely to be horrible than nice a lot of the time, sadly.
    — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Hartnett: The sins that lead to their horrible outcome.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • There’s going to be great days, and there’s going to be horrible days.
    — Bridgette Bartlett-Royall, Essence, 19 June 2024
  • Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Most Americans agree that now is a horrible time to buy a house.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And Jamal Murray came back from a horrible Game 2 to score 32 points.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Grandier’s horrible fate has drawn much attention to the events at Loudun over the years.
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This is also a great matchup against a horrible Jaguars passing defense.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024

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