How to Use horror in a Sentence

horror

1 of 2 noun
  • The crowd watched in horror as the fire spread.
  • His friends were shocked by the horror of his death.
  • There was a look of horror on her face.
  • His memoirs recount the horrors of the war.
  • His crimes were unspeakable horrors.
  • Pity the poor horror movie hero.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • It’s all based around horror movies.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Lowen leans back and shrieks in sheer horror.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • As in many horror films of this type, plot holes start to form.
    — Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But the Wayans didn't draw the line at horror.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
  • May has been a major month for horror fans.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
  • The horror of my first birth melted away.
    — Sarah Hoover, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The horrors of Gaza, at least for now, have been paused.
    — Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That, to me, is one of the bigger horrors of life.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • Is there more horror in both of your futures?
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Their eyes telling tales of horrors no one should ever see.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That’s kind of a problem for a horror film.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah, the script was such a fresh, novel take on horror.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Still no horror, or romance, but a boy can dream.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Boy, how horror appetites change in just three years.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • What gives with horror films and boxes?
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But what sticks isn’t the horror-movie optics.
    — Christopher Anderson, Vanity Fair, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Both came from YouTube and made horror.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • But for both actors, their horror movies are more about love than scares.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Their childhood, for all its horrors, felt at times like the easy part.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • It was lit for a horror movie, by single bulbs at the end of long cords.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The body horror was already there.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • When Notre Dame burned, the world watched in horror.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • So, where does the King of horror reside now?
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Tony Wash is making some big moves in the horror space.
    — William Earl, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025

horror

2 of 2 adjective
  • Flanagan has become of the most influential voices in the horror genre in recent years.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The stories are spooky enough to satisfy horror readers, but not scary enough that a non-horror reader wouldn't enjoy it too.
    — American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • All were treated as exceptions to an unspoken anti-horror rule.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2026
  • While Psycho is arguably well-known by both horror and non-horror fans alike, the same can't be said Peeping Tom.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The streamer then greenlit a second season (coming out before the end of the year) and a third season of the horror apocalypse drama.
    — Kayti Burt, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Over the course of the collection Chung dabbles in science fiction, fantasy, fable and horror.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Looking forward to what Netflix will bring to subscribers in October, both horror movie fans and non-horror movie fans can rejoice.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Goth previously said in 2023 that the Oscars should recognize more horror genre films.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
  • Studios embarked on a horror arms race, locking up talent in first-look deals, hiring execs to focus on the genre and figuring out how to get more product into theaters.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
  • As a breezy, 100-minute collection of puzzles and jump scares, the first film was a surprise hit, the kind of low-stakes entertainment even non–horror fans can enjoy.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
  • Horror Express, which was shot in Madrid, feels like the work of a director who was a fan of the horror genre and wished to elevate the material beyond pure camp.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Horror Express, which was shot in Madrid, feels like the work of a director who was a fan of the horror genre and wished to elevate the material beyond pure camp.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Everything about this year's The Toxic Avenger is about flipping the script, including on superheroes and the horror genre itself.
    — EW.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • To understand how crucial the flexibility of audio in Dead by Daylight is, consider how horror films use sound in a linear format.
    — Nina Corcoran, Wired, 30 Oct. 2021
  • From the creators of Dark, an intriguing period mystery/horror German series called 1899.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
  • The Vigil is a much better horror picture and is currently on Hulu), offering at least something amid a gun-shy industry qualifies as an act of charity.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • The actress memorably won an Oscar in 1991 for her leading role in the adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel Misery.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The box office recovery is still being driven largely by young people, particularly young men, which doesn’t inspire much confidence that non-superhero, non-horror and non-video game action franchises will do much business in cinemas anytime soon.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Another non-horror movie that was included in Scary Movie 6 was the biopic about Michael Jackson, titled Michael, which features his nephew Jermaine Jackson as the late pop star.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • The new film and series projects span a wide array of genres, ranging from thrillers, action, dramas, comedies and romances to supernatural and horror titles for a YA audience, as well as biographies, true-crime and investigative docudramas.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Mórbido describes itself as a communications platform, a generator of own, independent and commercial content, all related to the fantastic and horror genre in pop-culture, technology and entertainment.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 May 2022
  • Other non-horror movies mentioned in Scary Movie 6 include Everything Everywhere All at Once, Brokeback Mountain, Kazaam, 12 Years a Slave and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026

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