How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective
  • The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
  • The team had a horrible season last year.
  • He suffered a horrible death.
  • He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
  • What a horrible way to go that would be.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • All sorts of horrible things that just were not true.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But just how cute can horrible tragedy be?
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And how did this guy do these horrible things?
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The toll of this war is horrible and there is no end in sight.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Want is deep and big and horrible and it cannot be chased down.
    — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Those who were close to him said his death is a horrible loss.
    — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The most horrible kind of jail.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This, of course, was a horrible idea.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • And what is that horrible noise?
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The throw wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t thrown well enough to avoid a turnover.
    — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There will be people who say that was great or that was horrible.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2023
  • Italy has not been of any help to us and Spain has been horrible.
    — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 3 May 2026
  • On her way up, Sara was met with a horrible smell and stopped.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 10 May 2023
  • The concept that menopause is this horrible phase of life goes back some time.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 23 May 2026
  • Thank you for your kindness in these horrible times.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • None of them were horrible looks, but there wasn’t a lot of paint touches.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • There’s no doubt that over the last week, the pitching has been horrible.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
  • And then with Delta, all the on-sales for the last month have been horrible.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The wounds had painful, oozing pus and smelled horrible.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • When the urge strikes him, Sam’s uncaged anger leads him to do horrible things.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Both horrible, but both things that can happen.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That was a horrible moment to watch.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Yes, a lot of great things have been done in the name of that flag, but so have a lot of horrible things.
    — Eric Dickerson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Things have been going horrible for me.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026

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