How to Use horrendous in a Sentence
horrendous
adjective- Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
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The pain of not being able to talk to them is horrendous.
— Susan Mallie, CBS News, 12 May 2018 -
The Bears’ defense is horrendous, and the Eagles could move the ball at will.
— Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022 -
Fame can be so horrendous, but there are parts of it that rock.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2023 -
Jeff Green and Davis were horrendous in their new roles.
— Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020 -
The Orioles are in the midst of a horrendous season, and that has been reflected in the stands.
— Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018 -
Deeply disturbed by the tragic fires and the horrendous loss of life around the Wellington PMB area.
— Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2021 -
There's a whole bunch of things that happened that were just horrendous.
— Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020 -
New York has won two straight and three of four after a horrendous start.
— Tom Withers, ajc, 24 Apr. 2021 -
The Reds have been scratching their way back from their horrendous start for 10 ½ weeks now.
— John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018 -
So what happened in a horrendous half to open the 49ers’ NFC title hunt?
— Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024 -
The initial look at the Cavs’ new starting group was horrendous.
— Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022 -
Ji grew up in North Korea during a horrendous famine in the 1990s.
— David Martin, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2018 -
Though Jordan Love played in the same conditions and, horrendous throw to end the game aside, didn’t seem to have the same issues.
— USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024 -
First up is resetting The Man’s leg, which sounds horrendous and looks even worse.
— Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2020 -
The idea of getting carted off for ten years is horrendous.
— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Under any circumstances that is a horrendous tragedy, but the video shows that there’s more to this.
— al, 21 Apr. 2021 -
Either that or the power play for each team was horrendous.
— Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2019 -
Lines to tour the Vatican these days may be horrendous.
— Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018 -
The Spartans had just one turnover after the horrendous start, which turned into 12 points for the Cornhuskers.
— Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2022 -
The good news is that the Panthers are at least putting themselves in position to no longer be horrendous.
— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The pain and struggle with mental health is horrendous.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 May 2022 -
All her family and friends are gone, in the most horrendous fashion, some killed by her hand.
— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021 -
That’s horrendous for creatures in the deep who need the oxygen the AMOC delivers to survive.
— Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024 -
Iron Mountain came from the U.P. three years ago and lost the state title on a couple of horrendous calls by the officials.
— Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2022 -
In a later sketch, Grohl goofed around with Fallon to sing old jingles in dodgy clothes and horrendous wigs.
— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2021 -
Morgan Loew: These were real kids that had these horrendous things done to them.
— Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021 -
Life goes on, season to season, while Hyams speaks of horrendous things.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023 -
This was a major highlight for a special teams unit that has been horrendous.
— Vincent Frank, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024 -
The Democrats would be stealing the election for Trump in order to trigger a civil war in the US, and that the violence from that would then be horrendous.
— Leah Feiger, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
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