Example sentences for: hideous

How can you use “hideous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In South Texas she is called La Vieja Blanca, the old lady in white, and she acts as a siren, enticing men, but when they get a look at her face, they see her hideous white skull instead.

  • Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and George Will ( This Week ) were lonely dissenters, taking the view that warm relations with a hideous human-rights violator are not especially praiseworthy.

  • The critics are unmoved: "just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). A few call Danes' performance better than the rest of the film but concede that even her nice turn can't save the film.

  • [T]hey started to draw the hideous bodies and heads, being good at drawing pictures in the most perfect form.

  • Wednesday, even commission Chair Kay Coles James, a gambling skeptic, succumbs to the hideous Vegas euphemism: She begins referring to the "gaming industry."


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