How to Use horrendous in a Sentence

horrendous

adjective
  • Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
  • 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
  • At Kim Jones’s show at the Palais Royal the heat was horrendous.
    Luke Leitch, Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • Fame can be so horrendous, but there are parts of it that rock.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The Chiefs’ tackling was horrendous against the Raiders.
    Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Lots of people want to go out but not in those horrendous seas.
    sacbee, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • First and foremost, the shootings are tragedies and are horrendous.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • On non-HOV roads, peak times were horrendous, but things got better off-peak.
    Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
  • 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
  • This is about some guy that took a claw hammer and did a horrendous act and tried to come here and tried to start over and keep us from knowing about it.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The pain and struggle with mental health is horrendous.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 May 2022
  • The Tigers need to add offense in an attempt to gain the fanbase's trust back after a horrendous handling of the 2024 roster.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Amid this horrendous run of form for one of the greatest teams soccer has ever seen, there is a very real fear among Manchester City fans that things are about to get a lot worse.
    Joe Prince-Wright, Nbc Sports, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024

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