horror story

noun

: an account of an unsettling or unfortunate occurrence

heard horror stories about recent layoffs

also : something unsettling or unfortunate

his childhood was a horror story

Examples of horror story in a Sentence

We've all heard horror stories about airlines losing people's luggage. Her childhood was a horror story.

Recent Examples on the Web Lionsgate’s genre-spanning 2024 slate of heist comedies, weepy coming-of-age tales, cheeky video game adaptations and horror stories was aiming to fill a void. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024 From fashion mishaps to beauty blunders, here are their anonymous horror stories. —

Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2024 The series — a spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s award-winning anthology series American Horror Story — features a different horror story in each of its stand-alone episodes. —

Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024 Funeral home horror stories have cropped up across the country in an industry riddled with mishaps. —

Christina Coulter, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for horror story

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