How to Use horny in a Sentence

horny

adjective
  • The surreal, the meta ... and the sublime clumsiness of the young and horny.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The whole thing just makes me miss how horny and violent movies used to be.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Ivan acts like the world’s horniest puppy dog, but Ani takes a shine to him.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Is Crux a horny record? As far as I'm concerned, all my records are horny records.
    Matthew Schnipper, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Gayle is calling out her horny friend on late-night TV.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The few known skulls of elaphrosaurs show that the youngsters had teeth, but that the adults lost their teeth and replaced them with a horny beak.
    Fox News, 19 May 2020
  • Still, Voight shines in a gob-smacking way as the richest and horniest man in town.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 July 2024
  • And Just Like That would be less horny than the average Folger’s ad.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The first change that took place was that the horny head plate became extended forward to form a sort of beak.
    Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • Prevent cheating and draw a horny new audience to the sport?
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
  • How, exactly, did this bar become the stuff of horny legends?
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But with Moordale getting sold, who knows where the horny students will earn their diplomas?
    ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There is also a love story that is more horny than romantic, which might be your thing.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Levine claimed that he's never been unfaithful to his wife, and that his only sin is being a very horny boy.
    Luke Winkie, Glamour, 28 Dec. 2022
  • And after a night of delays, reporters are probably well aware of the need to be on the lookout for the horny little monsters.
    Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 9 June 2021
  • Like, that process alone costs so much money and ruins so many extremely horny lives.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The Battle of Winterfell is over, the dead have been burned, and everybody is extremely drunk and horny!
    Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2019
  • The movie gives us just enough horny youngsters, references to pot, and old coots with grudges to fill screen time until the special-effects guys go to work.
    John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Rachel Sennott, who played the hurricane at the center of Shiva Baby and co-wrote this new movie, is the brash, horny cutup.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In the most horny and memorable introduction, a guy tells Katie all about his stroke… his painting stroke that is.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 8 June 2021
  • And for the most part, its parade of cartoonish gangsters and horny sorority girls doesn’t.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
  • Television ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 isn’t as horny as the first.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
  • This isn’t the same uncontrollably horny weirdo who beat off on a city sidewalk, or in a grocery store parking lot.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Both the book and the television show will leave you equally sad and horny — the show comes with the bonus of not having to just imagine Connell's lusted-after, um, chain.
    and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 30 July 2024
  • Buckaroo breakfast (8 to 10 a.m.), food, music, vendors, car show, horny toad races, more.
    Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 26 May 2017
  • But the feathers of the bluebird, the kingfisher and other birds are colored blue due to the dispersion of the light striking minute air cells in the horny structure of the feathers.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Amazing how Helen can reason with the head of one of the most dangerous cartels, but no luck with her horny teenage daughter.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The rest of the show’s fatally horny teens are left at a prep school with more rich troublemakers than Constance Billard.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • This brings us to my second-favorite thing about cicadas: Everything about them is very horny.
    Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 8 June 2021
  • The film follows a cohort of dumb horny college kids (including a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth) who don’t know they’re being manipulated into a horror-movie-esque death.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024

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