Example sentences for: horrid

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

  • The scientists were sorely vexed, To classify him so perplexed Their brains that they with rags at bay Called him a horrid name one day, A name that baffles, frights, and shocks us, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

  • To put someone on oath, and then ask if he has masturbated or committed adultery (both mortal sins according to traditional Christian ethics), is merely to "give occasion of horrid perjuries."

  • Miami Horrid (Herald).

  • Missing is the horrid at this point in time , but that probably occurs more in speech than in writing.

  • Besides the exquisite tropical specimens, there’s a perfectly horrid giant octopus.


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