How To Use Horrendous In A Sentence

No more brown and white tiles or horrendous cheapo panelling, please.
In whatever way you choose to commemorate the horrendous acts of early September four years ago, let us once again renew our gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy and reaffirm our commitment to tolerance, peace and liberty throughout the world. 09/01/2005
A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers.
The legal teams shuttle back and forth between the contending parties on a settlement quest which may save the horrendous costs of a High Court hearing and the strain of a two year waiting period for a listing.
The photograph depicts two youths in horrendously tattered rags.

And then there's losing a child, which, by all accounts, is so horrendous that what we know as grief barely applies. Latest stories
Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
A horrendous smirk of a smile polluted Jen's bruised face as her fingers sharpened into pointed razor claws.
It is obvious that those blackguards did something horrendous to you.
It is they which evoke remembrances of a lost war and exiled dynasty, a failed republic, a terrorist dictatorship, and horrendous devastation in the wake of still another lost war, and, finally, the trauma of a divided city.
Instead of indulging in something horrendous like book-banning, it should be seen as an opportunity to shore up our level of scholarship as well as articulateness which is pathetically abysmal at present. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs, screenplay for a future Spielberg movie!
The schedule was absolutely horrendous. The Sun
Your letter shows how it is possible to live on beyond such a horrendous experience and find constructive support. Times, Sunday Times
The victims have suffered a horrendous ordeal and quite appalling injuries in the case of Mr Francis.
So in other words, it's permanently a horrendous mix of straightness and waviness.
He said: 'It was a horrendous situation. The Sun
There followed a horrendous package of measures to freeze pay and prices, axe public spending and jack up taxes.
They were horrendous crimes committed by evil people. The Sun
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
The atrocities committed on all sides were horrendous and on a gargantuan scale.
On at least one noxious occasion Mad Max barked orders to her as he sat astride a thunderbox, a horrendous experience for anyone of a sensitive disposition.
Backlash, the rearward movement of the trigger after sear release, was horrendous.
Obviously this will be open to horrendous abuse, so I might chicken out at the last moment.
Great swaths of land are dug up all over the world to build new tracks, and noise pollution is horrendous for miles around. Times, Sunday Times
It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases.
Brainstemboy: err the UN body you are talking about is a self serving commitee with nothing better to do much like the Human Rights bodies are filled with countries with horrendous HR histories. Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war?
One can only imagine the stark terror experienced by these young people during this horrendous event.
All kinds of weather conditions marked the week, from strong storm fronts, to gentle zephyrs and horrendous wind-shifts, turning 180 degrees.
I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity.
The drive home was horrendous, with repeated hold-ups and long, long tailbacks.
The police officer said the attack was the most horrendous he had ever seen.
The medical/legal findings in this study, causal or not, are horrendous and therefore it is important that the suggested epidemiological, pharmacokinetic and animal studies be performed. The Panic Virus
Not only are they horrendously expensive, but they are ridiculously easy to come by and are designed to encourage us all to spend more.
The snowstorm was especially horrendous for sheep farmers as lambs were buried under snow. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to me no footpaths are easy to walk on after the horrendous non-stop rain we've suffered.
American greed & gluttony is an evil force in the world which is already generating a horrendous amount of suffering among the impoverished today. Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives
Easter said: 'It was an horrendous tackle. The Sun
Inevitably I fell for him, thereby complicating my life horrendously and introducing an unexpected wild card into his.
Instead of the horrendous front pages of last week, full of trauma, assault, and invasion of privacy, today's paper was blazoned with four articles I was interested in.
It is the memory of this horrendous episode that has struck such fear into the inhabitants of Freetown today.
It's great for Roger because he's had a hard time since he suffered a horrendous injury last season.
I was getting really worried that he might wee in the taxi and I'd get a horrendous bill to pay for the car to be cleaned, so I let him out one more time and went out with him.
I mishit the tee-shot slightly and came up short in the most horrendous rough.
Admittedly there are some horrendous policy promises, of which trade protectionism is the most worrying. Times, Sunday Times
In any case, the death of Pelléas is a crude murder by a crazed enemy, whose depravity has already been manifest in the horrendous scene in which Golaud hales Mélisande up and down by the hair of her lovely head.
One thing hits you quickly: the voice acting is horrendous; the characters seemingly have no voice inflection, which leads to a monotonous game.
They sometimes feel their own situation is horrendous and no-one else can possibly be in the same boat.
Inevitably I fell for him, thereby complicating my life horrendously and introducing an unexpected wild card into his.
He said it must have been horrendously hurtful for the family to agree to the publication of the pictures.
In the background were the out-of-focus balconies of a massive, architecturally horrendous apartment block. DISPLACED PERSON
We went to a mall outside Glasgow and had a pretty horrendous experience. Times, Sunday Times
Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.
But the Flaxby Road outfit have been hit by a horrendous injury list that has robbed them of six first team players.
The traffic is already horrendous and a 2,500 horse town above all others needs space. The Sun
Given the horrendous conditions and despite the incessant rain the sides served an entertaining game of football.
I mean it's affected his life horrendously so, and it made him very introvert, Larry.
And the many others who were not directly on what we call the pile, the horrendous mountain of debris following the attacks, but were in close proximity. Remarks of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to the League Of Conservation Voters
It trivialises these horrendous crimes, insults the intelligence of your readers and sullies the name of the band. Times, Sunday Times
There can be no sulks, no horrendous body language on the court, no blaming other people for defeat.
He leans forward, clearly about to admit to something completely horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
Again, you have a horrendous, fundamentally unresolvable problem, of picking the warhead from the decoy.
The government has also tried to pass some horrendous law to justify their original lunacy, but it was rejected, in case people haven't noticed.
Well just take comfort that they are still paying and paying not only for their overpriced real estate and sky-high property taxes and association dues but also big bucks to solve that horrendous algae problem in their little lake. Wednesday lunch in L.O. (Jack Bog's Blog)
In recent weeks, our Government has been trying to distance itself from the horrendous costs of foot and mouth disease, preferring to present the ministry as an innocent victim of greedy rustics.
Posted 05/31/2008 by jayjay007 by the way, the nanny in the interview she gave for Bild in German said that there were 6 tv's on all the time, the noise was horrendous, and the kids ate whatever they wanted when they wanted - for example, pizza and cholate bars for breakfast. that's your great mother for you guys. the woman is a basketcase. Angelina Jolie Uncensored!: Vanity Fair
Seneca the Younger: You're correct that in Latin 'sic' means 'thus'; however, in editing, 'sic' means 'it was wrong in the original and I'm anal enough to point that out to you in case you missed that horrendous grammatical/spelling error.' Congressman Peter Hoekstra tweets a security breach!
The idea that there's a ticking time bomb inside all women, making us desperate, obsessed, and broody - its just horrendous.
After this morning's horrendous drive in the season's first blustery snowfall, motorists won't have it any easier on the way home.
Why do these criminals feel they can perpetrate such horrendous crimes and get away with it?
We are able to acknowledge horrendous scenarios, justify our errors, and forgive our mistakes by making a situation light-hearted.
Later he presents the horrendous death rates for convicts being transported to Australia in the 1790s.
Yet another natural disaster, this time an earthquake of horrendous magnitude, has all but flattened what was left of that 'cussed' country. TrinidadExpress Today's News
In the medical schools' defense, both operate under the horrendous restrictions of a perpetual organ shortage.
Brown added: ‘We are in a promising position but we have got a horrendous pile-up of fixtures which could work for, or against, us.’
Rents were horrendous for urban dwellers, with entire families doubling up in crowded single room tenements.
He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life.
The consequences, had what they were doing led to a train being derailed, could have been horrendous.
News of horrendous mortality rates awaiting Liberian colonists contributed mightily to this declining interest.
He lost an eye and an arm, as well as suffering horrendous internal injuries.
More recently, he has endured the most horrendous bad luck in terms of injuries.
But Jeffrey Sica , president and chief financial officer at Sica Wealth Management LLC, said he believes U.S. bank bonds to be a "horrendous investment" now, given their anemic growth since the credit crisis. CDS on U.S. Banks Stubbornly High
Well, Pelzer suffered the most horrendous abuse from his alcoholic mother that California had ever seen dealt to a child, but, most importantly, he survived.
#16 POSTED BY bill, Feb 7th, 2009 12: 30 am only issue i have with this list is “hard up for cash jimmy page”. as a diehard led zeppelin fan that brought up bad memories. i remember when they signed away the rights for diddy to make the horrendous song. i dont think hes strapped for cash though, hes been knighted and just put out another album. Top 10 Pointless Remakes » Scene-Stealers
Custer was a horrendous student, and the word able was not the first that came to mind when people described him. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
They were horrendous crimes committed by evil people. The Sun
The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry.
Where in the chart was the horrendous road accident, the sickening collision of metal and concrete?
This experience was horrendous and we felt totally abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead.
That one's physique could be stretched to such a horrendous degree must be way beyond our comprehension.
Players and coaches wanted to get back to their base in Krakow as quickly as possible but instead had an absolutely horrendous journey. The Sun
And so began a horrendous sequence of interrogation and beatings lasting at least six hours.
The weather in the Firth of Forth that day was night was described by Forth Coastguards as horrendous with gales, rough seas and freezing temperatures.
This Time treatment arrives on the same day Nick Kristof, a longtime defender of global women's issues, in The New York TImes took a quite different approach, highlighting the gross "misallocation" of U.S. resources to the war when our own country is suffering from horrendous unemployment and a cracking educational system, among other woes. Greg Mitchell: What's Sadly Missing in Time's Controversial Afghan Cover
We'd be so bruised and cut by the saddle, it was horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
It's further spiting me today by giving me some horrendous bowel cramps and spectacular diarrhoea.
She was quite close with money, and they often had horrendous arguments about spending.
The poster showing the Jack Russell's horrendous injuries can be seen in the background.
The case of these missing girls is gruesome enough without such horrendous false alarms.
Voodoo has been a contributing factor in many horrendous incidences in the United Kingdom in recent years.
We see some terrible cases but this is the most horrendous for some time.
I climb out of my top bunk and get my Walkman in the hopes that music will drown out the horrendous noise.
But this next cold snap should not be as horrendously cold and snowy as earlier this month, although the outlook remains unclear. Times, Sunday Times
The police officer said the attack was the most horrendous he had ever seen.
They raise horrendous amounts of dust, which is carried by the rising mushroom clouds into the stratosphere.
Mick came and slung his arm around Torin's shoulder, another horrendous breach of eti - quette from which Torin literally cringed. Second Skin
This may be due to the constant reminiscing of certain horrendous historical events.
We packed up a picnic lunch in the backpack, hopped in the car and drove through horrendous traffic to the zoo.
The violence, although sporadic, is horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
The snowstorm was especially horrendous for sheep farmers as lambs were buried under snow. Times, Sunday Times
She was force fed; the most horrendous thing I have witnessed in my life. Times, Sunday Times
It seems to me no footpaths are easy to walk on after the horrendous non-stop rain we've suffered.
I am not going to give you examples, but there were two really horrendous stories, awful.
My Autumn foods would have to be the horrendously expensive matsutake mushrooms, although given the price of high quality ones I usually end up eating merely the prepacked off-cuts that come in rice topping kits. Japanese autumn bus tours
There is a horrendous toll of workers being maimed, injured for life and killed in the building industry.
He spilled a can of green paint across terracotta tiles - what a horrendous clash of colours.
Conditions in the refugee camps were horrendous.
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
That regime is capable of unleashing the most horrendous forces of economic destruction: deflation or hyperinflation.
The investigation into the frustrating delays and horrendous cost overruns associated with the new £400m - and rising - parliament building at Holyrood has been a compelling spectacle.
One never knows why these people are thrown into a society where there is no development and these people are living in horrendous conditions of abject poverty.
Pit bull dogs can inflict horrendous wounds on people.
We are united in our stand to bring to justice those that perpetrated such a horrendous act of murder.
But if a referee makes a catalogue of horrendous blunders, who's going to take him to task?
The economic turmoil that would be inflicted on Greece could be horrendous, as a huge currency depreciation could prompt bank collapses. Times, Sunday Times
If there was ever a more horrendous buzzkill in life, I've yet to experience it.
One dad stormed:'It is absolutely horrendous. The Sun
Of course the Democrats have their own horrendous record of party racism if you look farther back intime. The Volokh Conspiracy » How to “Kill the Bill”
Shortly after the horrendous cafeteria ‘food’ was disposed of, a familiar cheery voice resounded through the room.
Horrendous twitter and jaggies mar the three dimensional pans, which mask the disturbingly uniform trees and empty dirt.
Actually, I'm simplifying the program horrendously there was a lot more stuff I probably didn't pick up.
The horrendous accident cruelly cut short the career of an incomparable artist, who was already famous as one of the greatest horn players of all time.
The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry.
He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life.
Nina can't believe that he choose the fabric for the second look, out of everything available at Mood, it's horrendous, actually she sounds out the word she's so disgusted - "ha-rend-us. Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking Recap: Project Runway #10, "Shake Your Booty"
Whirling bodies slashed and hacked at each other; the slaughter was horrendous.
But it is feared the influx of "eco-tourists is causing "horrendous" pollution from ship fuel and rubbish, as well as disturbing wildlife in one of the last pristine landscapes left on Earth.
The horrendous thought of a baby being aborted (and killed) for being "inconvenient" at a point in gestation when actually available medical intervention could save that baby for parents who really want it is something our society should definitely take a closer, more ethical look at. 14 Important Science Questions
Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.
Once, he was bitten by a horrendous dog, and was also stung by a wasp.
It was the most horrendous place, because it was so savage, Alsatian dogs were snarling at you all the time, there was hardly any food.
Her tale takes off like a cheetah, starting with the horrendous moment of simultaneously losing six of her Black Panther brothers, as in siblings, to her impregnating rape a day later, her brief career as a bordello girl, to her self-willed destiny as the ultimate queen of drug dealers in 1970s Chicago. â¨â¨ Binky Philips: Nick Tosches Saves The Last Dance For Satan
Magistrates described his driving record as horrendous and said he was in blatant breach of a court order.
– so they say the measure means less than the horrendous reality that these were once a biodiversity of living trees discorded innocence it is which bears the name but odium clings perversely to the deciders of need & fate the symmetry Archive 2008-12-01
Allen sparked a war of words with Cole after branding the Girls Aloud singer's soccer star partner Ashley Cole "horrendous" and calling her bandmate Nicola Roberts "the ugly one" in the pop group. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
I've got past my horrendous slog in the first innings, so we'll be trying hard.
During their journey, illegal migrants can suffer horrendous sanitary conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Dunfermline have had a horrendous start to the new season and entertain Celtic today, but their manager's enthusiasm remains unbowed.
It must be horrendous for the islanders to have lived like that for the past 28 years, and long before that. The Sun
Vegetables are horrendously overcooked, meat is often raw. The Sun
These and other horrendous work he was forced to do while a PoW effected him for the rest of his life with no recompense from the German Government and hardly any from the British government. Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre
Now, looking at the horrendous pictures on television and participating hectically in the local efforts, it seems just a matter of chance that one survived.
Verbatim notetakers can get by thinking I'll figure out what this means later, but later, you've got those horrendously voluminous notes to deal with.
It was outrageous, it was horrendous, and it was disgusting.
He hasn't lost his sense of humor: "The first movie I saw was that horrendous 'Fright Night' remake and the first thing I ate was one of those Black Angus burgers. 'West Memphis 3' Reunite
The snowstorm was especially horrendous for sheep farmers as lambs were buried under snow. Times, Sunday Times
She said: 'It was horrendous. The Sun
At best, the application could be called dinky; the interface is horrendous, and there is no user manual, or anything to really indicate what is going on.
It's a masterwork of narrative mutation, of horrendous flights of fatal fantasy locked inside the brain of a truly troubled soul.
Venus, 'the evening star,' second from the sun, a hothouse of horrendous creatures: airborne, landlubbing, oceanic. The Venus Trap
Lithium, a drug used to treat both epilepsy and bipolar disorder, can cause horrendous acne and chronic folliculitis, and it can exacerbate psoriasis. Simple Skin Beauty
When my older son and his girlfriend had a stillborn son a while ago it brought back all the pain and I had horrendous panic attacks. The Sun
In the first of many gripping scenes, a horrendous accident leaves all three hanging precariously by one rope.
This was the real cause of the horrendous bloodbath of the First World War.
Cheap and nasty food becomes even cheaper and nastier to subsidise the horrendous wastage.
But no explanation of the most horrendous moment in the history of the Derby can be other than speculation.
The fact remains that the men who put on uniforms, no matter which flag the marched under, fought and died alike, in horrendous circumstances.
What happened that night was absolutely horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
Here, the nearside lane of the westbound dual carriageway of the A64 was coned off, causing horrendous traffic jams.
But a horrendous heat wave then parched their new island and fell with special fury on the king's shepherd.
When they saw what had happened to the waitress, they stared in helpless horror, horrified by the horrific horrendousness of the situation. Sanguine Pizza
The kingdom of Horder is about to be destroyed by the most horrendous and least stoppable force in the world ... and, amazingly, it isnâ€ ™ t Groo! Dark Horse Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Kenny Smith feared for his life on the Ullapool to Stornaway Calmac ferry during a horrendous storm.
Short term it sounded absolutely horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
What happened was horrendous and came as a very big shock.
Traffic is horrendous, with streets congested during seemingly interminable rush hours.
It was horrendous, and I don't see anything which could justify such acts of barbarism.
She has been in intensive care at the hospital ever since, suffering horrendous breaks to her left leg, pelvis, ribs and shoulder.
Without Western support, such countries as Somalia and Zaire descended into chaos and intertribal conflict, often with horrendous loss of life.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Philip Roth, and starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, the film suffers from being horrendously miscast from the outset.
Eventually, the merry mutilators grow sick of each other's horrendous overacting and face off for an ultimate battle of brains, brawn, bowie knives, and tire irons.
For weeks, our news was dominated by scenes of young schoolgirls being subjected to horrendous abuse as they tried to make their way to school.
Often we are not battered to the point that we display horrendous scars, visible bruises or lumps and bumps.
And it would probably have been four from four but for an horrendous traffic jam on the M1. The Sun
The callicantzari were horrendous underground monsters. Isle of View
We'd be so bruised and cut by the saddle, it was horrendous. Times, Sunday Times
People must continually be reminded of the horrendous damage that tobacco inflicts on smokers and those who experience second hand smoke.
May 14, 2010 2: 16 PM lora96 said ... my poor retinas will never be the same, scorched as they are by the horrendous and repulsive cover art. which sort of reader are they trying to attract? lantern-jawed gentlemen with massive glowing winkies?? Happy Friday, Author-Friends
But horrendous traffic meant he missed his Stansted flight and had to rush to Gatwick instead. The Sun
And once again, as I said in my previous comment, things may need to get worse before they get better - so, let things slide deeper and deeper into gynarchy until it hits the brick wall of natural limitations with a horrendous crash!
The implications of failure, resulting in thermonuclear exchange between the two superpowers during the Cold War, were horrendous. Who's the World's Sheriff - the UN or the U.S.?
It was horrendous with dirty, cramped enclosures.
Knowing his kicking game has been horrendous, Carr called for a fake and Brabbs took a handoff from the holder and ran to the NCAA Division I College Football - Utah vs. Michigan
Answering questions while chomping through steak is horrendous.
Instead of going on peace demonstrations and fulminating about the horrendous injustice and doublethink perpetrated by all participants, I should have been figuring the angles for profit opportunities!
I of course ripped out all of my horrendous stitching and quickly stitched up the edges of the cloth, so as to make it unrecognizable as a former unfinished sampler.
She was force fed; the most horrendous thing I have witnessed in my life. Times, Sunday Times
Not only they smoke too much and the muzzle blast scorches the brush, they really have a horrendous recoil! Any body ever heard of or shot a 420 shotgun
A low-to-high swing of similar speed with a narrow wooden racket would end in horrendous mishits. Spin Doctors

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