How to Use horrific in a Sentence

horrific

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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
  • At the time, the true nature of Bundy’s horrific crimes was unknown.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Apr. 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
  • The chaos included the horrific sight of would-be refugees falling from the wings of a cargo plane.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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 worry is that the Cubs lineup has been great, and the Athletics bullpen is horrific.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 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 videotape of the beating was horrific, no matter the race of the officers or the victim.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 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
  • Bitcoin was down around 10%, and Ethereum was down 15%, which is bad but not horrific for the two largest coins by market cap.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But there are still all these stories coming out, one more horrific than the next.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Some of these people have been through horrific things.
    — Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The end of season three ends in such a horrific, horrible way.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Then, Bush was speaking to a nation – and a world – looking for moral leadership after the horrific terrorist attacks on September 11.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
  • And, prior to that, she was forced to sit out her first season at Oregon after transferring from the University of Texas following a horrific leg injury.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024

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