Example sentences for: horrifying

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

  • Uniformly first-rate reviews for this memoir of two brothers, both professors of English, who become obsessed with gambling after their parents' deaths: "superb and horrifying" (Tom De Haven, Entertainment Weekly ); "an exquisitely crafted memoir of their three years in the grips of Mississippi casinos" (Lisa Gubernick, the Wall Street Journal ). Not only is their story surprising, but the ending is a real doozy: They are charged with conspiring to cheat at blackjack, even though they have managed to lose their entire $250,000 inheritance in just three years.

  • Obviously, horrifying footage of refugees played a role in rallying the public.

  • So we have turned to objects that make holes in faces and bodies--unique or multiple, public or intimate, ferociously unnatural, undeniably captivating, and faintly horrifying.

  • The other horrifying consequence of a greatly extended life span--Strom Thurmond's ass.

  • UFC fights could be horrifying.


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