How To Use Horrible In A Sentence

  • choco-lemon's diary choco-lemon's Diaryland Diary nerves up until lunch this was a completely horrible day. it picked up when me, lindsay, and krist stopped at murray to buy a quatch. once we smoked i bowl i felt a million times better. and that scares me. Nerves
  • He is turning into a horrible person. The Sun
  • Until that point, you must simply bear the horrible dialogue and two-dimensional characters.
  • Their horrible loss in the Super Bowl has been difficult for many fans to stomach.
  • King Richard, as a just guerdon for all his fascinorous actions and horrible murders, was slain in the field.
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  • Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
  • Ugh, I've got something horrible on the bottom of my shoe!
  • Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
  • The fact that we know how this horrible story ends makes it difficult for us to analyse the early chapters.
  • Played in horrible conditions with gusting gales and sweeping rain this was never going to be a pretty affair.
  • But I have brought myself to do horrible things.
  • Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. The Scottish Chiefs
  • They did have the horrible, driving wind and rain in their faces but that couldn't account for all the missed tackles and gaps aplenty.
  • I started topamax 3 scares truley 100 bid persisting heavy hostility, mood. "/" i took my mri periods to my super trileptal for behavior control who prior shook his impact because he noted "bulging discs, professional spondylosis, sacroiliitis, psychoactive scoliosis, and unwanted increment disease" i had no peole anything was excellent with my orally until immediately a sensation of studies anytime when i administered the important helllp and have removed in horrible arm since from the changing discs. Wii-volution
  • The weather has been really horrible all week.
  • His transformation, his finding himself, after witnessing a horrible atrocity, is a miracle. James McBride discusses Song Yet Sung
  • Wilful impenitence is the grossest self-murder; and that is a horrible thing, which we should abhor the thought of. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • It is then as mysterious an art as it is loathly and horrible; it needs as The Defense
  • You could potentially become a victim to horrible eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
  • He raved, he cursed, he shook his fists in my face, and then suddenly a horrible spasm passed over his features, he clapped his hand to his side, and with a loud cry he fell in a heap at my feet.
  • They add that, although it is loathly and horrible to look upon, being in the form of a skeleton, I yet give it especial honour and call it in the Greek tongue, basileus, my king. The Defense
  • What if the whole entire school catches it and falls into horrible states mentally and physically?
  • There was a horrible accident here yesterday.
  • What it's like: self-satisfaction made into music - a trip-hop-tinged reinvention that could soundtrack an advert for a horrible men's fragrance. Times, Sunday Times
  • These are meanspirited and horrible policies. The Sun
  • Dealing with my Father MSgt Leslie Cooper USAF Retired who died a paralyzing horrible death from cancer exposure to working on Titan II ICBMS and having daily contact with Veterans and Veterans with Service Connected disabilities, they are considered noncombat and face more dangers of dying an early age than those in combat and they are the Cold War Veterans. 911 VETERANS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES NEED HELP!
  • In some quarters there has been some recrudescence of the _Shakti_ cultus, with its often obscene and horrible rites, and the unnatural depravity which was so marked a feature in the case of the band of young Brahmans who conspired to murder Mr. Jackson at Nasik represents a form of erotomania which is certainly much more common amongst Hindu political fanatics than amongst Hindus in general. Indian Unrest
  • By releasing Tectonics, Freeland showed the world that UK breakbeat meant much more than the cheesy sounds of Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers and the completely horrible Bentley Rhythm Ace.
  • A horrible something, as penetrable as mist, as keen as the sting of conscience, as inevitable as the burden of life, seemed to inwrap him. A Tar-Heel Baron
  • You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley 
  • The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • She's got a horrible little dog that yaps around your ankles.
  • They had a scene where they have the most horrible kinkiest sex I have ever seen in a film in a long time, where she would punch him in the face while riding him and whatever. Yeti: A Love Story (2006)
  • I watch the horrible dream drive away and disappear in a dribble of tail-lights.
  • Did you get to die a horrible death with giant ants gnawing at your body?
  • Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster?
  • It is horrible and gives me the heebie-jeebies.
  • This created terrible slums, full of people living under horrible conditions.
  • The light shone over the man's features, and Connolly breathed a horrible choke.
  • We have seen it very graphically by the use of what is a horrible expression, I think, soft skills.
  • We told her nothing of our horrible experience.
  • The weather was foggy, damp and horrible. The Sun
  • The sight of the battlefield was horrible.
  • My first attempt at a chocolate cake tasted horrible.
  • The tragedy changed football stadiums, but it has become a horrible history consigned to the past. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation.
  • The deal was worth $250 million over ten years but the cost was horrible teething troubles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stephen Cheung discussed RMB policy and Plaza Accord in AD: The Horrible Lesson of Japan see original in Chinese cached below. Yuan-taka Desyo?
  • September 20, 2007 in craptastic, rants, television reviews the first 14 minutes of the Bionic Woman have been posted online, click below to watch, but be warned, you will probably want to claw your eyes out, even if there are no bionic eyes with which to replace them. it is a pretty horrible 14 minutes. The first 14 minutes of The Bionic Woman…oy. « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
  • Some maps included here are horrible documents devised by horrible people. Times, Sunday Times
  • These latter numbers look horrific, and seem hard to believe, but we are currently set on a path (especially now with the "breakages" in the banking system - today there is growing and informed specultion here in Catalonia that Caixa Penedes, and Caixa Catalunya may be the next to go) where it is hard to see how we won't get to that horrible place if no one does anything. A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
  • And when I bought those horrible little overdyed red saveloy thingees at the butcher, no one had any idea what the “cheerio” was that I asked for but instead offered me “little boys” – sigh I say pyjama…
  • I have memories of being in bed, hearing a horrible thud and my dad crying out in pain as he hit his head again. Times, Sunday Times
  • It trundled along those terrifying streets so slowly it was horrible. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
  • It would be a horrible pain to have to deal with the corset and many underskirts as well.
  • That horrible building lowers the whole tone of the neighborhood.
  • In another moment it forged slowly past me, tolling as it were a death knell from the engine-bell and associating in my mind spectral tableaux of horrible collisions and mangled dead. A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
  • Every boy wanted to go out with Jessica, even if they claimed they didn't because she was a slut, a skank, or she had a horrible personality.
  • Now that scientists understand that brain cells can regenerate, there may finally be a glimmer of hope in treating the horrible ailments that destroy them.
  • Max is currently being a very, very naughty boy on a geopolitical level and planning to do horrible things with a kind of sonic obliterator bomb that may well be the greenest weapon of mass destruction ever. Screenhead
  • You have a horrible tendency to post charts and either not label them properly (usually the y-axis) or not state what each curve represents (in this case it happens to be fairly obvious, but you should still state it explicitly). Matthew Yglesias » Doubts About a Vehicle-Miles Traveled Tax
  • The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
  • Why do you have such a horrible thing in such a lovely store?
  • It was a horrible rainy day and the visibility was poor. Times, Sunday Times
  • The use of nuclear weapons is a horrible threat to the species.
  • This was a secret she harbored, that she should dare compare her situation to something so horrible.
  • And in Italy, my husband walked in with some horrible strep thing, to a hospital, was fixed with free medicine and then sent to a specialist a few days later who diagnosed some allergy he had that no one here ever noticed... and he did not get charged a centime. Nina Burleigh: A Socialist and a Capitalist Walk Into a Bar...
  • My stomach deflated and the horrible bloated feeling I had woken with was gone.
  • It was absolutely horrible going up the hills 'cos they were really, really steep.
  • I want those horrible soldiers who were responsible for this to be publicly punished and humiliated.
  • What about white kidney bean extract, the horrible farts, the newfound energy I experienced?
  • They wrote me a very ominous e-mail saying if I relisted the item horrible things would happen to me.
  • I didn't start out hating them, but the parade of horrible behaviour on show has changed my mind.
  • I used my column in an uphill battle to educate gays and straights about the horrible realities of AIDS.
  • They simply challenged horrible second rate restaurants and dirty caffs which were closed half the time.
  • Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
  • Carlyle has said: "Death is easy; all men must die"; but to receive two gallons of full-strength sulphuric acid full in the face is a vastly different and vastly more horrible thing than merely to die. CHAPTER XLIX
  • Rodd literally jumped in his alarm, for there was a tremendously wild cissing from the pan and a horrible suggestion therewith that Mrs The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
  • Moments later, I felt a horrible hunger pain shoot through my body.
  • She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.
  • There was a horrible crunching noise which turned out to be The Chief's dentures cracking in two.
  • There is no way for us to escape this horrible, ghastly death.
  • They make me a horrible person. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scott McClellan, prior victim of horrible gay rumors, was helped out the door abruptly, possibly at the urging of Josh Bolten, DC batchelor. Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Sudden’ Goss Resignation Prompted By ‘Something That Popped This Week’
  • The King slowly sat back down, lines creasing his face as if he were suffering a horrible headache.
  • That seems like a horrible mess that will drag on for years.
  • What a horrible thing to say!
  • You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
  • He had finally dozed into a fitful sleep only to be awakened by a horrible dream, his only problem, he couldn't remember it.
  • There was no worse fate than being herself, her horrible, difficult, unlovable self. LOST CHILDREN
  • Except for the gaping hole in the street and the crumpled bonnet of the motorcar, the entire incident might have been a horrible dream. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • An ancient race of horrible organic creatures becomes a threat.
  • She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • One wheel makes a horrible squeaking noise.
  • The effects of this disease are horrible. You wouldn't wish them on your worst enemy.
  • It was horrible to think that I had provided the weapon, however undesignedly, but I could hardly think otherwise. Great Expectations
  • She just wanted to be released from this horrible life she had been cursed with.
  • We say This mousse is a lighter colour than most liquids, there is no horrible smell and it dries within a minute. Times, Sunday Times
  • While I applaud his early championing of mono, his work with George Harrison on All Things Must Pass was horrible (the vocal is almost inaudible), and his work with Lennon only acceptable because of the generally sparse arrangements. Three Sacred Cows « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • I have a horrible habit of correcting people if they lie in front of me and I catch them.
  • If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication. Chapter 7
  • I have had a fortnight of perfect weather here -- the meteorologists call it by the horrible and ugly name of "anticyclone," which suggests, even more than the word "cyclone" suggests, the strange weather said by the The Silent Isle
  • I’m writing due to the fact that this piece of garbage call TSO is horrible. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Concert Review: Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  • Guilty of being vastly unoriginal, insipid, boring, and just downright horrible!
  • Greenberg has apologized for "slurring" his words, says he feels "horrible" about it and "would never say anything like that. NFL Films becomes its own reality show subject in new truTV series
  • I had beed to sleeb ad was just dreabig that sobeone was sayig, 'Mrs. Behetable Burchison is _so_ fod of fish, and we ofted have fish for didder,' whed I woke ub and saw all those horrible cats lookig id ad the widdow; id quide gave be The Wallypug in London
  • We can feel dreadful for them without providing commentary at the horrible spectacle of it all. The Sun
  • Let me but look upon my own flesh and blood, let me baptize the unbaptized with my tears, and I shall feel this horrible load removed from my heart. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
  • And in the death-scene of Edward, it can hardly be denied that the senses are somewhat overcrammed with images of physical suffering, so as to give the effect rather of the horrible than the terrible. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • Why should anyone want to eat something so horrible?
  • He wheedles his harmonica - a horrible sound.
  • They made sure that he died a horrible death.
  • The use of nuclear weapons is a horrible threat to the species.
  • You have the RIGHT … to family and medical leave, to sue your employer for looking at you funny, to sue him for not firing someone else who looked at you funny, to sue that guy who owns the house you were breaking into when you hurt yourself, to inspect the coins jingling around in your pocket and not see those horrible letters G, O, D. House of Eratosthenes
  • My sister was being horrible to me all day.
  • Neither is horrible to read, but the attribute version in Listing 2 is easier -- and better still to write, because you do not need to worry about capricious subelement ordering.
  • It crashed through the barrier and then something horrible began.
  • It was a sea of horrible toga tank tops, and those double-slit skirts that resemble loincloths.
  • The use of nuclear weapons is a horrible threat to the species.
  • The raw nuts are then cooked, giving off a horrible odor and cracked open to reveal what we know as the pale tan cashew nut. Archive 2005-09-01
  • Karas remembered hearing, "It was a little 1-year-old boy with this horrible disease called osteopetrosis, and the only cure was a bone marrow transplant, and would I be willing? Top Stories - Google News
  • My first attempt at a chocolate cake tasted horrible.
  • I hoped the simplicity of our living accommodation was not going to be a horrible disappointment to him.
  • This tastes horrible, " said Tom, pulling a face at his glass.
  • We moderns, owing to our horrible system of footgear, which is hardly less absurd than the Chinese shoe, no longer know what a foot is. King Candaules
  • Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
  • He was a pleasant man who tended to tell horrible jokes and reminisce too much about days gone by.
  • MARK THE MISOGYNIST: He has a horrible relationship with his mother, ex-wife, and/or girlfriend, usually describes them as crazy, psycho, or bipolar, and he uses the word bitch a lot. Become Your Own Matchmaker
  • Sabretooth is a horrible, one-dimensional,rampaging pain in thebuttcharacter, but I think that this big role, in what is sure to be a ginormously popular film, is good news for Liev. Liev Schreiber
  • Please forgive all the horrible grammatical errors in this piece, since I had to correct it myself.
  • The formula is pretty basic but very productive: horrible little Shinchan shocks and mortifies the adults around him with his complete lack of anything resembling a filter. CMX-cellence
  • Cases in point see again the horrible treatment of Santhi Soundarajan by IOC affiliate organization Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), as well as recent media coverage about the IAAF strongly recommending gonadectomy (castration) for Caster Semenya on spurious "medical grounds" and the IAAF's scandalous public offer of "free surgeries" for Caster Semenya. Indymedia Ireland
  • There was a feeling in the young man's stomach, of hatred and sickness, and a horrible clench.
  • You can't help noticing that it's the low-tech weapons that are really horrible.
  • There's a ghostly figure screaming a horrible noise right in my face. The Sun
  • To me, death was a mysterious, dark, horrible thing that would catch you and drag you down into a deep abyss, away from everything and everyone you loved.
  • While in hospital he was given build-up drinks which he disliked, and the food was horrible.
  • If you carry on being horrible to your sister, Sophie, you can just go to bed!
  • There were all these intricate diagrams of horrible shackles and thumbscrews.
  • I said some pretty horrible stuff to her, and it still hurts knowing she may have died with those words still in her head.
  • Yep, my last name backwards is so horrible I won't even tell you what it is. Trebor Nosnibor
  • He's got a horrible cold.
  • Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man. Uprising
  • What's this horrible gunge in the bottom of the bucket?
  • So, slowly but surely, the Metrobus blue-and-yellow is dying out, and that horrible green Arriva thing will be replaced by a smart red.
  • And then Lovat, seeing the long swell of that grey sea, and the funnels of ships like a city suburb, put the helm hard aport, and turned the ship about, and beat against a horrible sea and wind till they got into the opposite drift. Kangaroo
  • While he was still president, Katsav complained that he was facing a political witch-hunt and accused the Israeli press of printing "poisonous, horrible lies.
  • She added: 'We are never personally horrible but often we say disobliging things about the food. The Sun
  • It is easy to get lost in the figures and horrible memories of schoolday logarithms, but here is some context. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was horrible, but it gave me a fantastic feeling of self-confidence.
  • Even laserdisc looked horrible compared to this new DVD picture.
  • We're pretending this whole love thing to save both of our careers because of a horrible mistake.
  • The horrible news leadened his brains with fear.
  • The bear roared in pain and rage, a horrible sound that shook the air and ground.
  • The effects of this disease are horrible. You wouldn't wish them on your worst enemy.
  • MIKE HUCKABEE (R), FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR: Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2009
  • Drug abuse is a suicidal act. Men dig their own graves by being addicted to the deadly pleasures of psychedelic drugs. The drug addict lives to die for ecstasy and hallucination, and they cannot avoid a horrible fate. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • A bitter confrontation ensued which he chose to end in the most horrible way.
  • Rod Blagojevic makes me think if horrible missteps involving a pruner. The Emmy Awards Live Blog
  • Ugh, I've got something horrible on the bottom of my shoe!
  • She is a horrible person and why anybody likes her or, gods forbid, admires her is beyond me.
  • That was such a disagreeable thing to be part of, such a horrible thing to be part of, but we were. Times, Sunday Times
  • I felt horrible when my recycling bin was filled with so much water that I couldn't tip it over to empty it.
  • He looked kind and craggy and outdoorsy and she realised with a horrible surety that she fancied him. FALLEN WOMEN
  • She's got a horrible little dog that yaps around your ankles.
  • It helps ‘break the tension’ over the whole horrible mind-numbing loss of life thing.
  • I've been in a horrible mood all day, today, but I went for a poo earlier.
  • If you've been fired because of some horrible offense, this may be a moot point.
  • Very nicely done and the horrible sleekit wee beasty should be put out to pasture asap for the sake of our country's economic and fiscal wellbeing. Cartoon: Martin Rowson on George Osborne's bright, progressive new dawn
  • The human pageant has been filled with wrong turns, backsliding, and horrible crimes.
  • Instead of letting my writer’s imagination run wild when there’s a horrible creak from the depths of the house, I can just say to myself “cat” and not worry about. Sometimes Even Writers Need A Break From Writing at SF Novelists
  • The noise was ghastly and sights horrible. Times, Sunday Times
  • The t-shirt is white with a horrible looking plastic alien coming out of it, jaws open, blood everywhere.
  • I would describe the sound as a horrible row, but as I'm in the band I would like to think it is hard punk!
  • I hate that you have the ear of 10 percent of the nation when you make your horrible statements showing your fatism… encouraging others in insulting and disrespecting fat people.
  • Did they think these things were so horrible and awful that they hid them from their prized Healer?
  • She will never be able to forget it, never be free from the horrible memory that this attack will leave her with.
  • I know it sounds horrible to pull away, but it may enable her learn that words can be hurtful - she's a pretty preceptive girl especially for her age, so it just might be a good lesson. Mommy Dearest
  • I felt unable to stop this horrible declaration of my most morbid thoughts, but the man nodded, looking at me pensively. Deadly
  • The audience hooted and hollered… and I looked around for those awful, horrible 13-year-old baseball playing boys, who had obviously snitched on us.
  • These are meanspirited and horrible policies. The Sun
  • An hour later, as the bus finally crawled its way out of that horrible traffic jam, it managed to reach the train stop.
  • It's the driver's skill, not the different country, that decides whether it's just a bump or a horrible judder!
  • My chemise has had a horrible bleach accident and half of the blue squares on it have disappeared under random-sized splotches of white.
  • The characters are fairly horrible yet Thomas coaxes enough style out of his writing to keep the pages turning.
  • In fact, it is a disgraceful idea, an appalling, short-term botch that would set a horrible precedent. Football.co.uk news feed
  • Because I just did a radio interview today and Ehhhh Gawd is my Bulgarian horrible. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Her black eyeliner and mascara was running and she knew she looked horrible.
  • Having some committee of aesthetics is a horrible idea. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Architecture Policy
  • Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
  • Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere. Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
  • He could not believe that someone, anyone, would do such a horrible thing to such a great country.
  • They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
  • Too many people have, and would, just be fearfully quiet in such a horrible situation.
  • The deal was worth $250 million over ten years but the cost was horrible teething troubles. Times, Sunday Times
  • This would invite or ignite horrible reaction in the Middle East.
  • Horrible mental image: John Ratzenberger in hiphuggers and an extra small T-shirt. No Title
  • The horrible old woman made him afraid, especially did her last words make him afraid, because he who was experienced in such matters knew that she had come with no intention of uttering them, that they had burst from her lips in a sudden semi-trance such as overtakes her sisterhood from time to time. Love Eternal
  • She has a horrible entitled attitude.

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