Example sentences for: horrid

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

  • 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."

  • (Horrid topic sentence: "My generation is special because of what we missed rather than what we got, because in a certain sense we are the first and the last."

  • 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.

  • It's often clear they hate something, if only the horrid jostle and pressure of covering the shows; or, maybe, it's dislike of their own contorted rhetoric that's rubbing off on what they say about the clothes.

  • Children were terribly frightened because of his horrid appearance.


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