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Example sentences for: horrifying

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Shortly after the shooting, the horrifying story spread that before she was shot, one of the two killers asked her if she believed in God.
Obviously, horrifying footage of refugees played a role in rallying the public.
The whole witless genre of the celebrity confessional undergoes a horrifying self-disembowelment.
In a survey of news uncommented upon by us about which I might at least have something entertaining or informative to say, I ran into the commuter train crash in London, which has so far a death toll of 26 and is of course horrifying, but speaks for itself; and the MCI WorldCom-Sprint merger.
She does recount the sexist pre-1950s research, which is occasionally hilarious (as when scientists were obsessed with testosterone, which they treated as the essence of masculinity) and sometimes tragic (as when hare-brained theories led to horrifying surgical procedures on women).