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Example sentences for: horrendous

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His speech from the dock and his horrendous execution have become the stuff of legend.
The same thing, essentially, that makes homophones horrendous no-nos in speeches.
Publications by early American travelers to the Southwest and Mexico depict the Spanish Mexicans in not only horrendous terms, but with extreme passion.
"[F]or a while, at least, the sheer journalistic energy of what we're seeing grips us in a casually exotic way" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The trouble: The plot is horrendous and ends up with an "obligatory traffic control emergency crisis" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) that takes all the spice out of what had been an unusual study of group dynamics.
Privations at home and the horrendous loss of life on the front turned popular feeling against the war.