How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective

• The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
• The team had a horrible season last year.
• He suffered a horrible death.
• He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• The bad news is despite the win, the Crimson Tide looked horrible in many facets of the game.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• Want is deep and big and horrible and it cannot be chased down.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• On her way up, Sara was met with a horrible smell and stopped.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• There’s no doubt that over the last week, the pitching has been horrible.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• No one can any longer doubt the horrible intentions of the Nazi beasts.
  — Gordon F. Sander, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• Both sides have done horrible things in the name of self-defense and revenge.
  — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• None of them were horrible looks, but there wasn’t a lot of paint touches.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• That’s a long time, but in July and August, the rain is horrible.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• That should have been the end of a horrible, widespread illness.
  — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• Kennedy seemed more in it for the LOLs of the two being horrible for each other and at each other.
  — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
• And around this grotesque and horrible mask of death, the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed in a stream of gold.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• She’s been jeered at and harassed and faced horrible things.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2022
• There will be people who say that was great or that was horrible.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 May 2023
• Then, an hour and a half later, a horrible storm came through and tore out half of its branches.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• People are much more likely to be horrible than nice a lot of the time, sadly.
  — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Hartnett: The sins that lead to their horrible outcome.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• There’s going to be great days, and there’s going to be horrible days.
  — Bridgette Bartlett-Royall, Essence, 19 June 2024
• Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Most Americans agree that now is a horrible time to buy a house.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• And Jamal Murray came back from a horrible Game 2 to score 32 points.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
• The ghosts are now stuck in a time loop, doomed to repeat the horrible massacre over and over, and that unlocks something in Charles.
  — EW.com, 3 May 2024
• In the lyrics, Larsson sings to a friend who refuses to let go of their horrible partner.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• Cunningham plays the captain of the ship, on which strange and horrible events occur.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Aug. 2023
• Still, the idea seemed silly, maybe even horrible, from the start: How would Dyneema, which repels water like a tin roof, respond to my excessive sweat?
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024