Example sentences for: horrendous

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

  • Most television journalism is horrendous, and some is actually harmful (by misinforming viewers about crime, for example).

  • Exhibits also show how horrendous were the living conditions endured by her crew of 450.

  • Yet few of the horrendous health effects of smoking are traceable to nicotine itself—cigarettes contain nearly 4,000 other compounds that play a role.

  • "[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.

  • Publications by early American travelers to the Southwest and Mexico depict the Spanish Mexicans in not only horrendous terms, but with extreme passion.


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