How to Use horrify in a Sentence

horrify

verb

• The details of the crime horrified the nation.
• They were horrified by the movie's violence.
• He was horrified by his failure to see the flaws in the planning.
  — Robert Dallek, The Hive, 7 Sep. 2017
• Then, one day my mum spotted a bald patch at the back of my head, which horrified me.
  — Simedar Jackson, Marie Claire, 15 May 2017
• Then, one day my mum spotted a bald patch at the back of my head, which horrified me.
  — Simedar Jackson, Marie Claire, 15 May 2017
• The notion of once more having to wait years to go back to work horrifies her.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
• When the group gets to Venice, things start to get very strange – and not just the group’s horrifying cheap hotel.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 1 July 2019
• The locals are horrified by a killing of a guest on their island.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2019
• But some weren't horrified by the taunts or sickened by the images.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
• Eight years of Obama's failure is what led to the events that have horrified us all.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• She was thus horrified when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 7 June 2017
• Most of Kosovo’s Serbs, who live in the country’s south, are horrified by that idea.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Still, the idea of raising her daughters alone, and the prospect of them ending up with a life like hers, horrified her.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• She was horrified at the mean things written in the Burn Book and loved how all the cliques blended together in the end.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 11 Jan. 2024
• That horrifies Miguel Pons, one of two deacons at the chapel at the Colón cemetery in Havana.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• This horrified many longtime fans, but the tour was still a wild success.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
• A horde of townspeople stand in the back, stricken and horrified.
  — Audrey Mitchell, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• The brazen lynching of the four sharecroppers horrified the country that year.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• But the all-male institution was horrified by the prospect of a woman in its ranks.
  — Hugh Eakin, Harper's magazine, 19 Jan. 2020
• The 1999 Columbine High School massacre horrified the country.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
• The videos and photos have gone viral, the latest images and stories from the brutal war in Ukraine to horrify the world.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 July 2022
• Many of them are horrified by the president, which wasn’t a huge surprise.
  — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• Nguyễn Văn Lém getting shot in the middle of the street, for instance—images that just horrify you.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2021
• Meitner, who had fled Germany because of the Nazis, was horrified at the thought of an atomic bomb.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• She’s horrified by the image, but is quickly snapped out of it, as the women need her help to complete the potion.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
• If the thought of eating pig feet is horrifying, swap it out for one of a dozen other options such as the braised beef brisket.
  — Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 13 Feb. 2019
• The public was horrified by Bond’s death, and the jury was influenced by that, Shapiro said.
  — Maria Cramer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The scale and speed of what’s taking place has horrified many onlookers.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• The high-profile homicide case horrified the city and spurred conversations about safety concerns that residents face in public spaces.
  — Adam Tamburin, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• There is ultimately nothing heroic about this guy, and feeling bad for him (and ultimately horrified by him) is about as far as your emotional connection with him can go.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024