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.
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One of the stories is a horror story about a hole in the ground.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021 -
At one end of the spectrum, there are the horror stories.
— David Frese, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018 -
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 -
Was it because this is just one of hundreds of horror stories in the tax bill?
— Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017 -
My friend had plenty of horror stories of her own, as well.
— Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 3 Apr. 2013 -
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 -
And people were telling me horror stories about things they’d seen on TV.
— Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017 -
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 -
Please discuss this with a lawyer who can give you more detail about the horror story that may lie ahead.
— Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024 -
Revenant, like so many horror stories, begins on a rainy night.
— Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023 -
Failure to ask the above is when horror stories surface, says Marin.
— Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 31 July 2019 -
Her mind games put a new spin on preteen horror stories.
— Jill Pellettieri, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023 -
Send tips, comments, and teenage horror stories to Rebecca_keegan@condenast.com.
— Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 23 Aug. 2017 -
With few or no horror stories from the Alaska Range this year, the topic on all mushers' minds is snow.
— Jake Berkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018 -
So many people have the horror stories of their first beer, and my beer was delicious.
— Tirion Morris, azcentral, 18 Oct. 2019 -
And that is only part of the horror story for investors and companies this year.
— Isabella Simonetti, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022 -
Lionsgate’s genre-spanning 2024 slate of heist comedies, weepy coming-of-age tales, cheeky video game adaptations and horror stories was aiming to fill a void.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024 -
The movie takes place on a merchant ship bound for London and becomes a survival horror story as the crew starts getting laid to waste by a most surprising passenger hidden within the boxes below deck.
— Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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