Example sentences for: hideous

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

  • And, at once, from the opening document of Washington's Writings , the suspicion arises that the Father of Our Country was, in truth, a hideous Bore.

  • Carey specializes in the picaresque, in one-man novels about larger-than-life social misfits who must cope with rotten childhoods, loveless families, hideous disfigurements, and secret shames.

  • At one point, he even planned to name a character in his novel Deception --a hideous, dowdy actress and an "ever-spouting fountain of tears"--Claire.

  • "In fact, if a meteor crashed into the Earth, sentencing everyone on the planet to a slow and hideous death, I'd expect Wal-Mart to do swell," he did not add.

  • I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.


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