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Example sentences for: horrendous

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Though you will need a car in this sprawling city, park it for your downtown tour and walk — traffic jams can be horrendous.
Publications by early American travelers to the Southwest and Mexico depict the Spanish Mexicans in not only horrendous terms, but with extreme passion.
Exhibits also show how horrendous were the living conditions endured by her crew of 450.
"[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.
The same thing, essentially, that makes homophones horrendous no-nos in speeches.