How to Use horror story in a Sentence

horror story

noun

• Her childhood was a horror story.
• We've all heard horror stories about airlines losing people's luggage.
• At one end of the spectrum, there are the horror stories.
  — David Frese, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• So, this is a horror story that is seizing on fandom norms and turning them on their head.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2018
• Those who haven’t lived through a remodeling project often don’t believe their friends’ horror stories.
  — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• That forum is now home to a host of horror stories from retail investors who lost nearly everything and the hard lessons learned.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Most of the players have been around on teams that didn't handle adversity well, and the new coaching staff had heard some of the horror stories.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The story of Pinocchio was always a horror story for me – the doll coming to life and not behaving as he was meant to.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Sep. 2024
• Chris Ottinger’s first Cowtown marathon last year might be better told through a horror story called It.
  — John Henry, star-telegram, 8 Feb. 2018
• Ryan Murphy’s new horror story — but not that horror story — got underway Wednesday night.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2024
• The fabled horror stories alongside the real-life history now remain as the backbone of a whimsical tourist attraction.
  — Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• But what about those horror stories that are becoming increasingly common on TikTok?
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
• Those who have a health savings account have to file their receipts to use their own funds to pay for health care, which sounds simple but can be a bureaucratic nightmare, if some horror stories can be believed.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 17 Jan. 2018
• But every good teacher is supposed to introduce new subject matter with one very important disclaimer, and its absence is what tells you who the bad teachers are in all of these horror stories.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 21 Feb. 2018
• The new horror story, he’s decided, will be Texas, which stood, this past cycle, as a powerful example of how reckless a redistricting process can become.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2018
• Such horror stories helped build broad bipartisan support for the 2016 overhaul, which Congress passed on a nearly unanimous vote.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2018
• One of the stories is a horror story about a hole in the ground.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Some are horror stories, some have a tinge of film noir.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Some of my new friends had horror stories about their schools.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• The Witch is a bonafide horror story set in New England during the 1630s.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2022
• But the latest in Airbnb horror stories comes from one group's rental in the Bay Area, where things got creepy fast.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
• Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  — Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2019
• The most thrilling horror stories are those whose truth is inescapable.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• But if that sounds like a horror story, or at least a tragedy, this new book is anything but.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• The host is not the horror story of an absentee, out-of-state investor who doesn’t have any ties to a town.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• As more horror stories about ICE turn up in the news, there are growing calls on the left to abolish the agency.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 27 June 2018
• Over the weekend, people who work at the store took to Reddit to share their horror stories, and, yikes.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 4 June 2018
• Instead of hearing about the horror stories over and over, there’s hope on the horizon.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
• The Mary Kay Letourneau horror story is a joke to these jokers.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• But Miles and Boles want those horror stories to become relics of a bygone era.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024