Example sentences for: horrified

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

  • Amsterdammers were horrified at the treatment of their Jewish neighbors and the dock workers staged a brave one-day strike to protest, but almost all the Jews were transported to concentration camps, never to return.

  • Inglis gets fabulous mileage out of this, doing a brilliant "more in sorrow than in anger" act that casts him as too horrified even to repeat Hollings' slurs.

  • (I will never forget how horrified I was as a young student by the amounts of almost human-like blood flowing into my lab dish while dissecting tubeworms to analyze trophosome enzyme activity.)

  • Perot and his Concord Coalition allies, the New Englanders Paul Tsongas and Warren Rudman, were as horrified by the federal deficit as the Mugwumps had been appalled by the support of Bryanite populists for bimetallism and as the Liberal Republicans, a generation earlier in the Gilded Age, had been frightened by paper money.

  • Andy Kaufman would have been horrified by the implication that he was better than the people who failed to understand him, if only because that would have made him so easy to skewer.


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