How to Use horrific in a Sentence

horrific

adjective
  • There were many groiss and horrific ones.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • None of us in this room allowed that horrific act to keep us down.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2022
  • With that horrific risk in mind, the crew hatches a new plan.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The danger here is greater than one horrific crime.
    — Jennifer Obel, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Or turn the front side of their house into a movie screen that plays a horrific film?
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • War is horrific, and should be condemned and avoided at all costs.
    — Andrés Garcia, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • But there are still all these stories coming out, one more horrific than the next.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Six days have passed since the beginning of this horrific war.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 19 June 2025
  • Her work with a body retrieval unit takes a horrific turn when the dead begin to rise.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Because their firstborn son had just died, and so that was horrific.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The nature of his creation may be horrific, but his heart beats the same as ours.
    — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Look no further than the horrific events of this weekend alone.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
  • How do people process horrific events?
    — Shawna Seed, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Jurors saw horrific photos of the bloody crime scene.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
  • How safe would the thousands be in this city just one month after the horrific attack?
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Its repeal has, of course, had a horrific impact on the lives of so many people.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Think Tiger Woods on the range six months after a horrific car crash.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • These horrific crimes by bloodthirsty aliens happen here, too.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That’s a horrific way to die, decaying from the inside out for that long.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Now there are cool churches who accept queerness and don’t paint it as this horrific sin.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The most horrific part is that these jaw-dropping records are just the beginning.
    — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
  • The horrific crash sent all seven golfers and their coach to the hospital.
    — Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Their biggest concern is what the horrific event will mean for the nation.
    — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The town was spellbound over this horrific murders.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • Why go romantic for a moment that’s so horrific on its face?
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Many people have reached out about Alissa telling them about the horrific abuse.
    — Danielle Bacher, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
  • At the time, the true nature of Bundy’s horrific crimes was unknown.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In that time, her legend has only grown, and more and more horrific murders have been tied back to her.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
  • Iryna came here to find peace and safety, and instead her life was stolen from her in the most horrific way.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a number of different ways to skin a horrific cat.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026

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