How to Use horrific in a Sentence

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• The brief, horrific scenes of the Harkonnen home planet of Giedi Prime are some of the best in the film.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Klimek: It’s been a record year for wildfires, with horrific blazes all over the globe.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• At the time, the true nature of Bundy’s horrific crimes was unknown.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
• That’s a lot of money to spend on a horrific status quo.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• This horrific attack was one of the major events that helped to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 13 Jan. 2024
• In both Uvalde and Sandy Hook, horrific images of the carnage were not released to the public.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• The chaos included the horrific sight of would-be refugees falling from the wings of a cargo plane.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Its repeal has, of course, had a horrific impact on the lives of so many people.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• With runners on the corners and no outs in the sixth inning of a 3-3 tie, the Sox endured a horrific sequence.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• That’s a horrific way to die, decaying from the inside out for that long.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• Look no further than the horrific events of this weekend alone.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2023
• The worry is that the Cubs lineup has been great, and the Athletics bullpen is horrific.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• The most horrific part is that these jaw-dropping records are just the beginning.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
• The footage made clear that the deaths were horrific and the suffering unspeakable.
  — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• The videotape of the beating was horrific, no matter the race of the officers or the victim.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• The shooting is a horrific tragedy – but hardly unique.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022 in a new memoir.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• And these souls who’ve met such horrific demises are lost.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 6 June 2023
• Bitcoin was down around 10%, and Ethereum was down 15%, which is bad but not horrific for the two largest coins by market cap.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• But there are still all these stories coming out, one more horrific than the next.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2024
• Those horrific conditions led to a cholera outbreak last year, the first such event in Haiti since 2019.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• The next morning, searchers came upon a horrific scene.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Some of these people have been through horrific things.
  — Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• Mental illness is said to be the reason for the horrific actions.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Gantz is not this horrific person like Ben-Gvir or Smotrich.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• Many people have reached out about Alissa telling them about the horrific abuse.
  — Danielle Bacher, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
• Six months on from Hamas’s horrific attack on the Israeli people, @David_Cameron renews our call to send all of the hostages home.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• He got hurt, and now to hear this information of what this man did is horrific.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 14 Sep. 2023
• Following the fight, Whittaker revealed a horrific injury, in that his teeth were completely pushed back.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
• Later that year, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, a fight broke out between some Chinese and white miners that quickly exploded into horrific violence.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024