How to Use harrowing in a Sentence

harrowing

adjective

• By turns serene and harrowing, the West here brims with life.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Many harrowing accounts have emerged in the days since the attack.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Her back and legs were bruised from the harrowing escape.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• In a harrowing 911 call, his wife can be heard begging for help.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Tran told a harrowing tale of her immigration to the U.S. in 1986.
  — Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• We are left with Auschwitz’s harrowing legacy and reminded of the full extent of the crimes of Nazism.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• Video taken from the beach showed the harrowing moments the small plane glided onto the shore.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• What stands out to you about filming that harrowing scene?
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• The North Riverside mall was the site of a harrowing point-blank fatal shooting that occurred in late May 2020.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• The story behind the wound was even more harrowing in real life.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024
• The fourth quarter has been a harrowing frame all season.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• As harrowing as those three losses were for the Heat, Game 7 in Boston in many ways was as good as the Heat got all last season.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• But for others the journey to safety has been much more harrowing.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• As such, the film depicts the harrowing truths of the way that caste systems are upheld, from slavery to lynching to genocide.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Vibe: Still fairly harrowing, but also now quite vibey.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2023
• Even amid such harrowing stories of loss and grief, there have also been stories of hope.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• The hours that followed, in her description, were harrowing in the extreme.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The lush, harrowing melodies almost leave listeners in a trance.
  — Shahamat Uddin, Vogue, 12 June 2023
• News and social media images of the storms were harrowing.
  — Louis Sahagún, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Both sides pressed tens of thousands of African migrant laborers to do the harrowing work of mining.
  — Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• Both pressed tens of thousands of African migrant laborers to do the harrowing work of mining.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• But a harrowing incident last July dealt a heavy blow to their rise.
  — Kanis Leung, ajc, 17 Mar. 2023
• The couple survived the ordeal with a harrowing swim to shore, according to a complaint filed last month in Hawaii.
  — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
• There is no guidebook for those harrowing nights as a driver on a steep and craggy slope, all downhill with no brakes and no clue.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• Ukrainians have, in the course of 18 fearful, defiant, harrowing months, grown used to the idea that things might change at a moment’s notice.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• For those seeking an alpine experience, take the long harrowing dirt road up to Deer Park.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• The man raced off afterward, the kind of exit that would normally signal the end of a harrowing ordeal.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2023
• But for even those who decide to leave northern Gaza, the journey is just as harrowing, Palestinians say.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
• Letting kids walk around in the dark is obviously harrowing.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024