How to Use horror show in a Sentence

horror show

noun
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  • The trial has been a horror show.
  • The half was a horror show all the way around for the Longhorns.
    — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 14 Oct. 2017
  • For most of the world the Covid-19 crisis is a horror show.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 May 2020
  • While the sixth was a horror show, the evening started on a good note for Colorado.
    — Kevin Henry, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This was a bit of a horror show, with a side of dark comedy.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 23 Jan. 2018
  • In the truth, it’s been a minute since Seattle has been anything less than a horror show for the Rangers.
    — Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Glennon's video playlist turned to the 2016 Bears season, a horror show to those who watched it live.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The rest of the month was a white-knuckled horror show as Woodrow’s health lurched from crisis to crisis.
    — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Did everyone watch the debut of the new horror show on ABC last night?
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2017
  • One is a true crime, one is a sports thing, one is a horror show out of my brain, one is a tribute to the ABC shows of my youth.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The grainy YouTube videos of old-time serpent handlers look like horror shows.
    — Julia Duin, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • The host of a late-night TV horror show believes a teen’s next-door neighbor is a vampire.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The other day, after the horror show in Cleveland, Duffy watched four hours.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 14 May 2018
  • First, though, the horror show — which, like all the best horror shows, begins with no inkling of trouble.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • News ahead of the premiere of his new horror show, Grotesquerie, on Monday, Sept. 23.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Why is there not a class-action lawsuit against all the bad actors in this horror show?
    — WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • But rehearsing for the show has been anything but a horror show.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • If that's not an option, show up for as long as required, then head home and strap in for a late night horror show.
    — Josh Wigler, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Panthers looked so good early in the season, but Sunday was a horror show.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Denmark, the world’s largest mink exporter, has seen arguably the worst of this species-leaping horror show.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • What’s worse was her first thought after confronting this horror show: There must be more food here.
    — Richard Rys, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Members of the group have had a front seat at the ongoing horror show that has been DeKalb government.
    — Bill Torpy, ajc, 24 May 2018
  • This sounds like the start of an inspiring buddy movie or a bleak dystopian horror show.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Another will be if what’s learned from the horror show of the Turpin home helps prevent or at least mitigate the next such tragedy.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • But now, a trailer reveals just what the co-creator has conjured up for his next horror show.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
  • After the Sunday hockey horror show, folks filled the Garden assuming the Celtics would make the world right again.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • The only question remaining is this: Can Mixon turn the game Sunday into a horror show for the Rams?
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The bullpen’s horror show is a big reason why the Cubs were in a 0–3 series hole, but the Dodgers weren’t able to expose that group’s soft underbelly in Game 4.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Turns out, no — those nooks and crannies are also a total and complete horror show.
    — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 24 May 2021
  • Things were getting bad and the joggers in the outside lane began to shy away and avoid eye contact with the horror show happening over in lane one.
    — Chris Foster, Outside Online, 8 July 2021

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