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Example sentences for: horrifying

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The life of an army surgeon in that dismal year was horrifying, and Minor could not have felt optimistic since neither Vicksburg nor Gettysburg had yet produced hope that the union would be preserved.
What had happened to all those people when they were 14 that was so horrifying?
Children were routinely told horrifying tales about gruesome creatures lurking nearby, ready to devour them if they so much as left their beds.
The other horrifying consequence of a greatly extended life span--Strom Thurmond's ass.
He makes a fatal miscalculation: The initial murders are so horrifying in their plainness that when the movie takes the gentlemanly way out and refuses to provide a cathartic bloodbath, the audience feels burned.